Best way to run rsync automatically but monitor status. 1

[nerbonne]

Hi. I want to run rsync jobs automatically at midnight. The thing is that I want to be able to see the job in the workspace (or desktop, not quite sure what the proper linux term is for the GUI). I know I can run the jobs automatically with cron, but I won't be able to see them right? They will just run in the background.

Any suggestions on the best way to do this?

My rsync commands look similar to:

rsync -avz --delete --progress --exclude-from=inc.txt root@server_IP_here:/home /backup/servername

 

[GunnarD]

Try this:

Append the output of rsync to a file

rsync -avz --delete --progress --exclude-from=inc.txt root@server_IP_here:/home /backup/servername >>/tmp/rsync.log

Then in a terminal window

tail -f /tmp/rsync.log

 

[nerbonne]

Yeah, that's a good idea. Thanks!