[Bug-wget] supressing output messages in backup script ?

[Voytek Eymont]

I guess this might not be really a wget question, more a general scripting
question ?

thanks for any pointers

I'm trying to use wget to 'backup' a remote win server to my host as follows;

GNU Wget 1.12

# backup bal win server
...
cd /home/bal/ftpbackup/$date1
wget -r ftp://ftp.bal.tld --ftp-user=bal --ftp-password=balpw


that works fine, but, generates lengthy log including 'progress output'

what;s the best way to reduce the log verbosity to minimum, I guess, I
mainly want the final message:

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FINISHED --2012-11-18 03:32:43--
Downloaded: 1724 files, 178M in 33s (5.43 MB/s)
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not really needed is:
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Length: 336067 (328K)

     0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 15% 1.64M 0s
    50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 30% 15.2M 0s
   100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 45% 24.5M 0s
   150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 60% 19.7M 0s
   200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 76% 25.8M 0s
   250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 91% 19.6M 0s
   300K .......... .......... ........                        100%
19.8M=0.04s

2012-11-18 03:30:08 (7.42 MB/s) -
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Voytek