On 3/20/24 17:19, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 20 Mar 2024, wes wrote: > >> why wait a few days? you could run rsync again immediately and you can >> look for errors. > wes, > > Two reasons: > > 1) I'm waiting for the weekend to replace the desktop's internal hard drive. > I'll run rsync then to update what changed from today. > > 2) The list of copied files scrolls by very quickly. Even if I sat her > watching I'd probably not see an error message and wouldn't know how > to stop the process to read it. > > 3) The three partitions duplicated contain 39G, 145G, and 171G. The first > one took 21 minutes; I didn't time the others but they were much longer. > >
Rich, you can tee stdout to a file $ rsync blah-blah |2>&1| | tee rsync.log "|2>&1" grabs both stdout and stderr. Now you can view rsyn.log at your leisure. -Ed |
