Been 'working' so haven't had a chance to check, but I seem to remember reading that rsync was completely revised in OS X 10.11?
Russell Courtenay Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 9, 2016, at 8:50 AM, cb <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you are going to do a bash or shell script you can redirect the output to > file to use as a log of what it is doing. Throw in a few echo lines to output > your own comments so you can mark off different sections and you may get > enough of a progress to satisfy your needs. Also if you use rsync instead of > cp, that has the ability to output a lot more of its progress as it goes > (anywhere from nothing, to listing what is is copying, to showing you how > much of a given file it is copying has completed). > > Again, redirect to file, or tee the output to both screen and file, and you > can capture what it is doing as it goes. > > -chris > <www.mythtech.net> > > > >> On Aug 6, 2016, at 5:43 PM, Russell Courtenay wrote: >> >> The main thing is getting all the 'switches' right then getting it to show >> some kind of progress output, I guess... >> >> I'll check into that... >> >> Russell Courtenay >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Aug 5, 2016, at 11:12 PM, cb <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> If you know how to do what you want in batch with xcopy you can probably >>> work your way thru the same thing in OS X's terminal and write a Bash shell >>> script to do the same thing. Use "cp" instead of xcopy, but the concept is >>> really the same. >>> >>> Once you can get a shell script working you can either set it to run >>> automatically at some interval using Cron, or you can use AppleScript to >>> issue a "do shell script" to run it (or Automator, or a few other options >>> to either run shell commands or run an existing shell script that will >>> allow you to wrap it into a double clickable icon). >>> >>> >>> -chris >>> <www.mythtech.net> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Aug 6, 2016, at 1:04 AM, Russell Courtenay wrote: >>>> >>>> I have been using Carbon Copy Cloner for years to make a bootable >>>> (ostensibly) backup. Well, they seem to have changed their shareware setup >>>> so after a certain amount of time it stops working. I just don't have >>>> $39.95 to spend on software today so I figured I would write a script in >>>> Automator. But I really don't know what I'm doing. My programming really >>>> hasn't kept pace beyond Commodore Basic and machine language and Y2K web >>>> pages. >>>> >>>> I found some basic instructions online to make a scheduled backup but that >>>> is not really what I want. I just want a button I can click every couple >>>> days to copy every new file, delete files on the backup that I have >>>> deleted on my hard drive and keep it bootable in case I need it. >>>> >>>> Seems simple enough, has anyone here done this? >>>> >>>> On the wife's PC I just set up an xcopy batch file, simple and dirty. 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