Bug 3094 - Signal handling to provide a progress update would be nice
Summary: Signal handling to provide a progress update would be nice
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: rsync
Classification: Unclassified
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: 2.6.4
Hardware: All Linux
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Wayne Davison
QA Contact: Rsync QA Contact
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Reported: 2005-09-14 04:15 UTC by Andrew Pollock
Modified: 2020-07-26 01:03 UTC (History)
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Description Andrew Pollock 2005-09-14 04:15:29 UTC 
Hi,

It'd be kinda cool if on receipt of some obscure signal, rsync could spit out a
progress update, similar to how it would if it was invoked with such an option.
Similar in behaviour to the way dd does.

Good for long running batch jobs that are logging some output, but not full
progress, to a file.

Love and sloppy kisses,

Andrew
Comment 1 Paul M 2011-08-11 10:19:09 UTC 
I too would like this feature. I use rsync a great deal, often for long-running tasks, and whilst "lsof" will give some idea of what's happening, being able to tell rsync to report its progress and some stats would be very very useful.
Comment 2 Paul M 2011-08-11 10:19:43 UTC 
p.s. this feature isn't for rsync version 2.6.4 but for all future versions.
Comment 3 Wayne Davison 2020-07-26 01:03:13 UTC 
This was fixed in 3.2.0.