[Gllug] Verifying rsync copy

[Jon Dye]

Hi all,

I use rsync to copy a directory of files to a remote location from a
cron job once a day.  Currently I give it the --verbose option so in
my email from cron I can see that it's actually worked (normally it's
silent).  I'd rather just have my cron email tell me if it transfered
anything and/or that the remote and local directories have the same
contents.

One thought I had was to run the rsync without --verbose first to make
the copy and then to run it again with --verbose to verify the result.
 Unfortunately this still passes me several lines that I don't really
want.  Does anyone know if there is some way to get rsync to just
return whether or not files were actually sent?  Is there some clever
parsing of output I can do?  Anyone have any other ideas (using any
other tools)?

Thanks,

JD
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