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Re: non-verbose ways to make sure Tarsnap is running
- To: David Prager Branner <brannerchinese@gmail.com>
- Subject: Re: non-verbose ways to make sure Tarsnap is running
- From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:49:39 -0700
- Cc: tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com
- In-reply-to: <CAPwJMrPVgdEf_yRkg_CuRKYNf+sFv7W7DWm_uH+XxnQFjRV=QQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 09/07/12 20:38, David Prager Branner wrote:
> 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?
I just tried with a tree of 55000 files, and running with -v added 0.3 seconds.
So yes, it does have *some* cost, but only about 6 microseconds per file...
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Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid