What do the numbers in rsync's output mean?
When I run rsync with the --progress flag, I get information about the transfers as follows.
path/to/file
16 100% 0.01kB/s 0:00:01 (xfer#10857, to-check=427700/441502)
What do the numbers in the second row mean? I know what some of them are, but what do the others mean (marked with ??? below)?
16 ???
100% amount of transfer completed in this file
0.0.1kB/s speed of current file transfer
0:00:01: time elapsed in current file transfer
10857 count of files transferred
427700 ???
441502 ???
Answer
When the file transfer finishes, rsync replaces the progress line with a summary line that looks like this:
1238099 100% 146.38kB/s 0:00:08 (xfer#5, to-check=169/396)In this example, the file was 1238099 bytes long in total, the average rate of transfer for the whole file was 146.38 kilobytes per second over the 8 seconds that it took to complete, it was the 5th transfer of a regular file during the current rsync session, and there are 169 more files for the receiver to check (to see if they are up-to-date or not) remaining out of the 396 total files in the file-list.
from http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/rsync.html under --progress switch