Need help to have a rsync script log output to a file with time stamp

Thaidog · 11-14-2011, 07:08 PM

I have the following rsync string:

Code:

# weird use of braces to capture STDERR and pipe to a file
{ time {
       rsync -av --quiet -e "ssh" --exclude="/mnt/glusterfs/upload/\*" --exclude="/mnt/glusterfs/lost\+found" root@server2:/mnt/glusterfs
       rval=$?
} } 2> ${dt}_dr_timing.txt

I need to add a variable for ${dt}_dr_timing.txt that gives the timestamp at the front of the output log. They would like the output to look like: yyyymmdd-hhmmss

How should I do this?

unSpawn · 11-14-2011, 07:42 PM

Doesn't rsync with "--log-file=/path/to/rsync.log --log-file-format="%t\n";" work for you?

Thaidog · 11-15-2011, 07:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unSpawn

Doesn't rsync with "--log-file=/path/to/rsync.log --log-file-format="%t\n";" work for you?

They want (a programmer in another group) to have a separate log that they access with a script they are writing...

unSpawn · 11-15-2011, 04:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thaidog

They want (a programmer in another group) to have a separate log that they access with a script they are writing...

I showed you how to create a separate log file the rsync way and ensure it has a suitable time stamp and I don't get what your reply signifies. And if they can't transmogrify the available time stamp to their "yyyymmdd-hhmmss" format they can be accused of much but not of being programmers.

Thaidog · 11-15-2011, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unSpawn

I showed you how to create a separate log file the rsync way and ensure it has a suitable time stamp and I don't get what your reply signifies. And if they can't transmogrify the available time stamp to their "yyyymmdd-hhmmss" format they can be accused of much but not of being programmers.

Well the whole script has lots of quarks like:

short_host=`hostname | awk -F. '{print $1}'`

Which I think hostname -s would work better / faster... but whatever... I'll run it by them to see what they say... thanks for your help!

unSpawn · 11-15-2011, 05:37 PM

One other way could be to output to a plain log file and let Rsyslog pick it up. This way you can apply about any formatting Rsyslog supports and even send it over to another host, say a developers machine running (R)syslog, for them to play with...