[rsync] get the differences between the source files and the existing files

djgerbavore · 06-04-2008, 11:40 AM

I want to know the amount of data that rsync will transfer over before rsync actually does the transfer. (like a --pretend flag)
The reason is because if the transfer is going to be large I might wait and do it later, and if the transfer is only a few megabytes then I might do the rsync now instead of later.

thanks,

djgerbavore

trickykid · 06-04-2008, 12:01 PM

From the man page:

Code:

-n, --dry-run               show what would have been transferred

You'll probably need the -v option as well for verbose output to see the files and total size of the supposed transfer.

djgerbavore · 06-04-2008, 12:05 PM

haha thanks,

I swear I read the whole man page for rsync. Sorry for the noise.
thanks!

djgerbavore