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

[Simo Melenius <simo.melenius@iki.fi>]

On 8 September 2012 06:56, Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> wrote:
> Or is this special cased for terminal devices somehow? I would presume
> not or most things emitting data for consumption over an ssh
> connection would be extremely slow... So if it's special cased, then
> empirically, it would have to be for local terminals only or something
> along those lines.

Another option would be to pipe the output to 'pv -pbl >/dev/null' to
eat the output but keep something running on the screen that's based
on the rate of tarsnap's stdout. (And optionally 'tee' the output into
a file before 'pv' if you want to save it for future reference.)

It probably doesn't affect the speed of the operation either but will
at least look cleaner as it won't spew thousands of lines of output.


Simo

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