On Sun, 04 May 2008 07:33:43 +0000, Goran Ivanic wrote:

> I am planning to use rsync for a daily backup to a remote backup server.
>
> When I read the rsync manual it does not become clear on how to write a
> log file for the rsync operation.
>
> I am missing options like:
>
> rsync ..... -logfile=\home\backup\rsync.log -logmode=append ......
>
> Did I miss these options?
>
> I want to write (append !!) to the log file:
>
> - Which files were transferred
> - When the rsync operation took place - How much bytes were transferred
> (total sum) in the rsync operation
>
> How can I get such a log file otherwise?
>
> BTW: Does rsync delete remote files (from previous rsync operations) if
> they are not existing any more on the source system ?
>
> Goran

rsync -avpl --progress --stats should be pretty close to what you want.