#552100 rsync should keep an error log

Package:
rsync
Source:
rsync
Description:
fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool
Submitter:
arne anka
Date:
2026-05-18 14:47:02 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#552100#5
Date:
2009-10-23 11:49:05 UTC
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To:
i just rsync'd 18gb of data with
rsync -avz ...
and got finally
sent 8042231852 bytes  received 37855 bytes  8127609.61 bytes/sec
total size is 16602927344  speedup is 2.06
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors)
(code 23) at main.c(1057) [sender=3.0.6]

after 18g with -v there's not much of previous errors to be seen, since
it exceeds the common buffer size.
thus, it would be nice, if rsync could keep a log of occuring errors and
print it out at the end. making it easy to find the offending files.
#552100#10
Date:
2026-05-18 14:44:59 UTC
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To:
Hello arne,

your report is quit old (~17 years) and today you might have found the
solution yourself today. If this is not the case please have look at the
--log-file option of rsync.

Regards,
Christian Buhtz

close 552100
notabug