rsync progress

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2013/9/29 C de-Avillez <hggdh2 at ubuntu.com>

> On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:47:45 +0200
> Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2013/9/28 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>
> >
> > >
> > > So far I have almost never got any answers to anything I asked
> > > here, so here is the next exciting question:
> > >
> > > I have a script that runs rsync for backup from my internal drive
> > > to an external one. It works great, but it would be nice to see the
> > > progress. It doesn't necessarily need to be based on file size, I
> > > just want to get some kind of hint what's going on.
> > >
> > > So I searched around and ended up with something like this, just for
> > > testing if it works:
> > >
> > > LineCount=$(find /Some/Folder | wc -l)
> > > rsync -anuv /Some/Folder /media/Backup/AnotherFolder/ | pv -l -e -p
> > > -s ${LineCount}
> > >
> > > (pv – Pipe Viewer – needs to be installed first: apt-get install pv)
> > >
> > > What happens in my case is that all those lines from rsync are
> > > scrolling and the last line is:
> > >
> [===================================================================================================================>]
> > > 100%
> > >
> > > Not very useful information if you ask me.
> > > I expected no lines scrolling from rsync, but only a ”progress bar”
> > > and the progress in % displayed. What am I missing?
> > >
> >
> > I think I found the answer myself in a video tutorial on YouTube…
> > I can just throw the output away:
> > LineCount=$(find /Some/Folder | wc -l)
> > rsync -anuv /Some/Folder /media/Backup/AnotherFolder/ | pv -l -e -p -s
> > ${LineCount} > /dev/null
> >
> > Then the 100% thing is all I see. It seems like it doesn't update very
> > often, that's why I only see 100%. I tried rsync with a much bigger
> > folder and now I got different numbers, and it seems like they are
> > displayed every second or so.
> > Then I found pv's -i option:
> >
> > LineCount=$(find /Some/Folder | wc -l)
> > rsync -anuv /Some/Folder /media/Backup/AnotherFolder/ | pv -l -e -p -s
> > ${LineCount} -i 0.1 > /dev/null
> >
> > Now the numbers appear ten times per second. Nice!
>
> I guess you already got what you wanted, but... did you try --progress?
>

Yes, seems to display the progress for each file, but I want the progress
for the total backup, which is about 70 000 in my case.

Anyway, the LineCount thing I tried didn't work as expected, since I use an
exclude file (a list of folders that isn't going to be backed up), but I
think I solved that problem too, I just didn't implement it in my script
yet.


Johnny Rosenberg


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