Just built 2.6.1 and started testing it. Nice job guys. I especially love the --progress and hardlink tweaks.
Quite often, while I have systems backing up out of cron, I'd love to be able to see the --progress. Unfortunately, it's just not practical to crank up the verbosity like that on a regular basis (some of these systems have a few million files). A neat feature I'd like to see is the ability to attach to a FIFO or something like that, that would (while the process is running) allow me to get that information. I'm sure that begs the question, why not just redirect to a file and parse out what you want when the backup is done? First of all, that's sort of ugly. What I have in mind is something a lot simpler. How about something *ROUGHLY* analagous to this: # cat /proc/$PID/prev (4643, 13.2% of 1027477) # cat /proc/$PID/curr usr/local/rep/3ECBF9879808410/dictdb_3ECBFB89878410OX.db # cat /proc/$PID/curr_rate 80703888 8% 65.37kB/s 3:51:30 Or even better is just to update the environment, so a simple "cat /proc/$PID/environ" could let you parse out $PREV, $CURR and $CURR_RATE from the environment string. I'm not much of a C coder, otherwise I'd offer up a patch. Wayne *DID* ask for neato features though, so this is my 2c worth. -Chuck -- http://www.quantumlinux.com Quantum Linux Laboratories, LLC. ACCELERATING Business with Open Technology "The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit." - FDR -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
