rsync progress

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 30 20:12:19 UTC 2013


On 30 September 2013 20:26, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/9/30 Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>
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>> 2013/9/29 Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 11:50:44AM +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>>> > "There is also a --info=progress2 option that outputs statistics based
>>> > on
>>> > the whole transfer, rather than individual files. Use this flag without
>>> > outputting a filename (e.g. avoid -v or specify --info=name0 if you
>>> > want to
>>> > see how the transfer is doing without scrolling the screen with a lot
>>> > of
>>> > names. (You don't need to specify the --progress option in order to use
>>> > --info=progress2.)"
>>>
>>> I'm running rsync 3.0.9-4 and don't see info=progress2 in the man page.
>>> What version are you running?
>>>
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>> I think it requires at least rsync 3.10 version.
>
>
> Yes, that's what I heard too, I think. And I am with 3.0.9, so I don't have
> that feature. I mentioned that earlier, and that I will probably use it when
> I have it, instead of what I'm trying to do now.
> Do anyone know which version of rsync comes with the latest Ubuntu? I only
> use LTS versions, so I won't upgrade until spring 2014.

13.10 Beta still has 3.0.9, but this was the latest until two days ago
when 3.1.0 was released [1].  I would expect that to be in 14.04 and
quite possibly a backport for 13.10 at some point.

Colin

[1] http://rsync.samba.org/




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