How to make rsync actually continue from where it left

As a total newbie, after reading tons of questions in SO and the documentation repetitively several times, I came up with this solution:

rsync -Pavuh --append-verify source destination

Where --append-verify flag implies --inplace flag and --inplace flag implies --partial and I only put the -P flag there because I am lazy to write --progress seperately.

Yet, when I issue this command, and Ctrl+C it in the middle of a big file, and then re-issue it, after it finishes I see that that big file is left where I cut it off.

The right behaviour should be as per documentation to leave the partially transferred file as is on cancellation accorind to the --partial flag (which is done) and then continue to append to it on the second trial according to the --append-verify flag.

How does a sys admin do issue this command?

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