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    Note that this has landed in 3.1.0. It is also important to note that this isn't necessarily accurate in the time perspective. It is essentially showing the amount of data that has been verified to exist on the remote end. And the rate is the rate at which the data is being learned to be correct on the remote end (whether it was already that way or the new data was transferred and made it correct). So although very useful you need to understand the caveats.
    – Kevin Cox
    Commented Nov 28, 2013 at 21:11
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    Worth noting that --info=progress2 doesn't work with -v
    – sanmai
    Commented Mar 8, 2015 at 15:09
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    @sanmai: Yes it does! It displays verbose output (which file is being worked on at the current time), but instead of showing the relative progress percentage for that individual file, it shows the absolute progress of the entire rsync operation.
    – Milos Ivanovic
    Commented May 2, 2015 at 19:16
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    Add the --no-i-r switch aswell, so rsync does not scan incrementally but completely before copying and knows+displays how much work is left.
    – Alex
    Commented Nov 19, 2015 at 13:17
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    Note that you can use --human-readable (or -h) to see total size in MB/GB.. in progress.
    – Nux
    Commented Aug 23, 2017 at 10:22