With --link-dest unchanged files are linked, not copied, so rsync's byte percentage stayed near zero and the ETA was hours. Use the checked/total file counts instead, and show no percentage or ETA while still scanning.
With --link-dest unchanged files are linked, not copied, so rsync's byte percentage stayed near zero and the ETA was hours. Use the checked/total file counts instead, and show no percentage or ETA while still scanning.