In order to make rsync less boring, I've hacked a file progress indicator into rsync, using vfdlib.

You can download it here.

This binary is based on rsync 2.5.5. Enable the empeg display progress indicator by using the --empeg-progress command line switch. Otherwise, the binary works exactly the same as the non-hacked version that was available at the same location. Because this version is stripped, it's much smaller than its predecessor.

The binary does not require hijack.

Source to the hack is included. Have fun,

Pim

How about showing a screenshot ?

(I'd do it myself, but I'm upgrading my disks next weekend and won't fiddle with my setup until that is done.)

oooh, this will be tried tonight.

what do it do?

Pim, this is just yummie.

although my other riocar is setup with rsync, I hadn't done the one I'm rsyncing to now. So, I set this up, and while it was deleting all the music, the screen was blank.

After that, it looks wonderful. As this empeg is new, I'm not setup to do a capture of the display, but trust me. Add the --empeg-progress to you rsync script and you won't be disappointed.

How about showing a screenshot ?

It took me a while to figure out how easily screenshots
are made with Hijack ...

So here's one:



This screenshots shows
- name of file currently being transmitted
- size of source file
- ETA (estimated time of arrival)
- current transfer speed
- number of transferred bytes
- progress bar and percentage indicating file progress
- progress bar and percantage indicating progress on number of files

Pim

When i try to run rsync with the --empeg-progress switch I get an unrecognized option error.

works for me with :-

/bin/rsync \
$@ \
--times \
--delete \
--verbose \
--recursive \
--copy-unsafe-links \
--exclude=config.ini \
--exclude=lost+found \
--exclude=khttpd \
--empeg-progress \
${rsyncserver}::${modulename}/drive? /