Need information about "--stats" output.

Collins, Kevin KCollins at nesbittengineering.com
Wed Jun 16 15:16:30 GMT 2004


Hi All...

I use rsync to backup most of my servers to an offsite co-located server.
I've been using this setup for about a month or so now and have been
generally pleased with the operation as a whole.

But one thing bothers me:

I use the following command to actually do the transfers:

rsync -ae ssh --stats --delete /source/path
offsite.server.name:/destination/

Which then in turn spits out something like this to my log file:
================================================================
rsync[23169] (sender) heap statistics:
  arena:       17339064   (bytes from sbrk)
  ordblks:          509   (chunks not in use)
  smblks:             2
  hblks:              2   (chunks from mmap)
  hblkhd:       1294336   (bytes from mmap)
  usmblks:            0
  fsmblks:           80
  uordblks:    17180952   (bytes used)
  fordblks:      158112   (bytes free)
  keepcost:      132840   (bytes in releasable chunk)

Number of files: 161530
Number of files transferred: 327
Total file size: 97936829135 bytes
Total transferred file size: 945709165 bytes
Literal data: 741315984 bytes
Matched data: 204393181 bytes
File list size: 3446549
Total bytes written: 745547229
Total bytes read: 1090478

wrote 745547229 bytes  read 1090478 bytes  87035.93 bytes/sec total size is
97936829135  speedup is 131.17
================================================================

The problem is:  I don't know exactly how much it transferred offsite.

Can someone please explain the output shown above to me...or point me to a
site that can.  I've searched Google, the man page, and the documentation
and nothing can tell me what this information means.

Thanks in advance...

--
Kevin L. Collins, MCSE
Systems Manager
Nesbitt Engineering, Inc. 


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