Showing total progress in rsync: is it possible?

There is now an official way to do this in rsync (version 3.1.0 protocol version 31, tested with Ubuntu Trusty 14.04).

#> ./rsync -a --info=progress2 /usr .
    305,002,533  80%   65.69MB/s    0:00:01  xfr#1653, ir-chk=1593/3594)

I tried with my /usr folder because I wanted this feature for transferring whole filesystems, and /usr seemed to be a good representative sample.

The --info=progress2 gives a nice overall percentage, even if it’s just a partial value. In fact, my /usr folder is more than 6 gigs:

#> du -sh /usr
6,6G    /usr/

and rsync took a lot of time to scan it all. So almost all the time the percentage I’ve seen was about 90% completed, but nonetheless it’s comforting to see that something is being copied 🙂

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