Abbas | Bassu

If you use rsync frequently, you might be aware of the fact that rsync doesn’t show overall or total transfer statistics when you’re syncing directories recursively. Even options like ‘–progress’, ‘–stats’ and ‘-vv’ won’t do that. I was searching for that, was about to write a script to run in dry-run mode and measure an overall rsync progress but found a patch here written by Graeme Humphries. This patch later was incorporated into latest dev version 3.1dev downloadable here at http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/dev/nightly/ with an option invokable by ‘–info=progress2′.

Excerpts from the man pages:

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.)
 

So, I downloaded, compiled and installed this dev version and guess what now, there’s no creepy scrolls in shell console filling up the screen with individual file progress.
Yea, I know Red Hat and CentOS are slow in updating their packages repository but lets hope when this build is final, Dag’s repo may have an rpm for it.