topic Re: transfer files in Operating System - Linux

transfer files

heaman1 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:02:17 GMT

I would like to use rsync , ssh to copy file to remote server , but I found if I add "> /tmp/log" to my rsync , ssh command , it will not output what file is tranferred to remote server to /tmp/log , can advise if I want to have a file transfer log so that I can trace the problem , what can i do ?

if I only want to output the transferred file name , not includes the transfer speed , file size , what can I do ? thx

Re: transfer files

Matti_Kurkela — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:30:05 GMT

Use the "--log-format" option to format the file transfer log as you wish. See "man rsyncd.conf" to see all the possible log format keys.

For example:
rsync --log-format='%f' somefile.txt somehost: >rsync.log

will output to rsync.log:
somefile.txt

NOTE: rsync will list the filename also if the file already exists in the destination. In this case, rsync only transfers a bit of metadata (file modification time, checksum) to allow the receiving end to verify that the file is the same and no transfer is needed.

MK

Re: transfer files

Court Campbell — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:20:12 GMT

In keeping with Matti's theme. You can also just add --log-file=FILE to the rsync command.