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Germar
Asked: 2012-01-26 16:54:14 +0800 CST

Increase verbosity of running rsync process?

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I'm running 'rsync -a -i /foo /bar'. Every now and then I would like to know what exactly rsync is doing at the moment without having the -v output all the time. Is it possible to increase the verbosity of running processes e.g. by sending a kill signal?

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  1. I use rsync -v --stats --progress

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  2. Best Answer

    I would redirect the output in a file and then tail -f to see the output when desired:

    rsync -a /foo /bar >/tmp/rsync.log 2>&1

    when needed:

    tail -f /tmp/rsync.log
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  3. In addition of -i, you can use --progress for more verbosity in sending data. for example:

    rsync -ai --progress .....

    If need more and more the better way is logging it as @Marc M said above.

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  4. The rsync documentation does not describe such behaviour, nor is there a (proper or de-facto) standard signal to send to a process in order to modify its verbosity.

    However thanks to the incremental nature of rsync you should be able to abort a running rsync with Ctrl+C and re-run it with '-v' and not lose much time as a consequence.

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