I am new and slowly learning the world of Linux and some things I prefer over Windows, some things I don't.
Yesterday, I started a huge backup (~200k files, 800GB) with right-click copy/paste. The ETA was around 16 hours... kinda slow because my external drive is kinda slow... But so far, nothing unusual here.
Today, I log back to my machine and I have that popup telling me there was a transfer error on a file (unable to copy) asking me if I want to skip/retry/cancel/etc... You know, the kind of annoying feature we had in previous versions of Windows more than a decade ago that halted a whole process just because of an insignificant file?
Now don't get me wrong, I am not asking the machine to make a decision for me and choose what to do in case a file doesn't copy... But why did it stop copying the other files that were fine? Do I have to stay 16 hours in front of my computer just in case there is a problem with a file. Will my backup take 1 week just because it stops on a few small files? Since so many years, Windows continues copying the files that are fine and at the ends asks for all the problematic files in one bunch... Did I just travel back in time 20 years?
CLEAR QUESTION: Is this behavior normal and intended?