Optionally show progress for rsync steps

[robspearman]

This is a feature request to be able to report progress of the sync back to the user.

In the past I have parsed the output from rsync --progress and used this to create a percent complete measurement that was helpful.

[deajan]

Have you had a look at RSYNC_OPTIONAL_ARGS in the config file ?

[latimeria68]

Hello, just looking for the same but appending --progress to RSYNC_OPTIONAL_ARGS is not working. Any suggestions?

[deajan]

Since osync runs rsync in background, there's really no easy way to get progress. The only way to get this to work would be to redirect rsync output to another fd, rendering osync incompatible with proabably a lot of other OSes. Sorry, that isn't a feature I can easily consider.

[deajan]

This could make use of command_runner package in osync v2 in order to show progress.