I have a rsync backup script, and I was wondering about methods of monitoring it as it runs. I could have it save a log and use watch and tail, but I had a more elegant solution in mind that might be possible. I'm just not sure how it would be done.Would it be possible to get rsync to run on it's own pts device, and run a command to monitor that device? It's not an area I'm familiar on, and any information about how this would be done or why it couldn't would be a valuable lesson for me.
Is monitoring rsync with a pts device possible?
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