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

[David Prager Branner <brannerchinese@gmail.com>]

No, not CPU intensive, but I imagine it has some cost for a large backup, since the program must wait until printing each line is finished before proceeding, no?

- dpb

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:

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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