How do I get transfer progress / speed output during LXC copy?

Whenever I make copies of containers using the lxc copy command such as:

lxc copy container-name container-name-copy

I don’t recall ever seeing any info regarding the copy operation. It just completes and that’s it.

Today I started using lxc copy to copy from a remote to my local machine via:

lxc copy remote:container_name local:container_name

And still the same thing. No output from the copy operation.

So I’ve tested this with the --verbose option as well as the -v alternative name for it, and nothing. Still no info.

The help section for lxc copy also has a --quiet option, the details of which are:

“Don’t show progress information”

Just the fact that the --quiet tag exists tells me that there must be some sort of progress / verbose info available to be output during the actual copy operation.

I just can’t figure out how to get that copy progress info.

Any ideas?

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