Whether you did the progress report as "file [x] of [y]" or "megabyte [x] of [y]" or whatever would barely even matter; I'd just like to see an indicator showing me where rsync currently is in relation to its entire list of stuff to process.
I would line to see a -progress_time {sec} type option, which wil only show the progress of a file after that file has already taken more than {sec} to transfer.
This could also ne a useful addition to the compond -P option, say with a argument of 5 seconds.
Situation...
I use RSync all the time to syncronize my home directory on my work machine with that of my home machine (or visa-sersa). I use verbose to give me a report on just how the rsync is progressing, and that it is still running okay.
The works well until rsync transfers a very large file (sources and RPM's) in which case just sits there, and the only way I can see how it is progressing is to look at the 'dot' file rsync is creating.
So I turned on --progress. Great I can see the transfer of each file but most files are small or only require a attribute change (modify time, permissions, owner etc)
When you do a verbose progress report of a lot of files much of the time the progress reports generated are usless as it took less than a second to transfer the file. Really I am only interested in the progress report for files that are taking some time so I can see how the transfer is progressing.
A --progress_time option will only progress report the larger files that is taking longer than the time indicated, and NOT all teh small files that take very little time.
PS: Just so you know, I was the person to suggest the '-relative' option so that I can use one rsync command to do complex transfers of my home diretory between machines.
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