[CentOS] rsync output under CentOS 6

[Keith Keller]

On 2014-12-14, Niamh Holding <niamh at fullbore.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Many years ago, FC4 days, the following command run as a cron job would
> result in a nice summary email as follows
>
> /usr/bin/rsync -a --no-whole-file --delete /music /thecus-music/
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> building file list ... done
>
> sent 351583 bytes  received 20 bytes  11527.97 bytes/sec
> total size is 62922572805  speedup is 178959.15
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> The same command under CentOS6 is silent, how do I get the nice summary
> email abain?

That must have been a very long time ago, as rsync has been silent for
as long as I can remember (even back to CentOS 5 and possibly even 4).

Anyway, you want some combination of the -v and --progress switches.
Try each separately, and both together, and see which you like best.

--keith

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