rsyncy 0.0.4

A status/progress bar for rsync.

rsyncy

A status/progress bar for rsync.

I love rsync but I always felt it was either too chatty when transferring lots of small files or did not show enough information for the large files in between.

rsyncy is a fun experiment to fix this without having to bother the rsync developers.

You go from this:

to this:

Status Bar

[########################::::::]  80% |      19.17G |      86.65MB/s | 0:03:18 | #306 | scan 46% (2410)\

The status bar shows the following information:

Description	Sample
Progress bar with percentage of the total transfer	[########################::::::] 80%
Bytes transferred	19.17G
Transfer speed	86.65MB/s
Elapsed time since starting rsync	0:03:18
Number of files transferred	#306
Files to scan/check - percentage completed - (number of files) - spinner	scan 46% (2410)\

The spinner indicates that rsync is still checking if files need to be updated. Until this process completes the progress bar may decrease as new files are found.

Installation

pip3 install --user rsyncy

# or if you have pipx
pipx install rsyncy

Usage

rsyncy is a wrapper around rsync.

• You run rsyncy with the same arguments as it will pass them to rsync internally.
• Do not specify any --info arguments, rsyncy will automatically add --info=progress2 and -hv internally.

# simple example
$ rsyncy -a FROM/ TO

Alternatively you can pipe the output from rsync to rsyncy (in which case you need to specify --info=progress2 -hv yourself).

$ rsync -a --info=progress2 -hv FROM/ TO | rsyncy

At the moment rsyncy itself has no options and only supports my preferred way of viewing rsync progress.

Development

First record an rsync transfer with pipevcr, then replay it to rsyncy when debugging.