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Re: non-verbose ways to make sure Tarsnap is running



On 09/06/12 19:08, David Prager Branner wrote:
> When a large backup is taking place, Tarsnap shows no signs of life. I've been
> using the -v option as a way of making sure it's alive and active. But I wonder
> if there isn't some less time-consuming way of letting it tell me that it's work
> — a slow-updating activity bar or something of that sort.

What do you mean by "time-consuming" exactly?  Printing names of files is not
exactly CPU-intensive.

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Colin Percival
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Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid