How to check progress of the rsync job

• You can add the progress option with rsync command:

rsync -a --progress /media/backup-folder/
sending incremental file list
created directory backup

• or you can add the -P flag in rsync command as below:

rsync -a -P /media/backup-folder/
sending incremental file list
created directory backup

Note that the -P option includes both –partial and –progress rsync options.