Interaction between --log-file, --progress, and --stats

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

@nickgaya

I want to show progress in the terminal updated every 0.5s and log stats to file every 60s. I tried this set of flags:

rclone sync -v --log-file rclone.log --stats 60s --progress [...]

However, with these flags the terminal progress interval is set to 60s, while stats are still not logged to file at all. It appears that the --progress flag supersedes normal stats logging.

Yes.

Progress and stats printing use the same mechanism, that's why you can only have one at a time at the moment.

@nickgaya

One solution would be to add a new --progress-interval duration flag to specify the progress interval. If both --progress-interval and --stats are given then progress is both displayed in the terminal and written to logs at the respective intervals.

I think I'd prefer a flag like --log-stats-interval which if set would log stats to the log file at the given interval regardless of the other settings. Maybe at a log level to ensure that the stats were always present.

It also seems like it is getting quite complicated!