want to do a recursive copy of my home drive to a external drive - in order to make a backup

and i want to use pv - to have an overview on the progress.

why does this fail

    pv -p -e -r -b r martin/* > /run/media/martin/HDDRIVE2GO/medion/medion2017/

this command fails -

questions :
- do i use too much parameter within the above mentioned pv-command?
- besides this: how would i write this command with rsync
- would i have an overview - in rsync too:

there is such an option: showing-total-progress-in-rsync-is-it-possible


#> ./rsync -a --info=progress2 /usr .
    305,002,533  80%   65.69MB/s    0:00:01  xfr#1653, ir-chk=1593/3594)

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