On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Jakob Unterwurzacher<[email protected]> wrote: > > It really depends upon how many files you have. For a server (lots of > files in maildirs etc., won't fit in the dir cache), rdiff-backup is > disk-bound - reading all the files' timestamp just takes lots of time > that cannot be optimized. >
Could rdiff-backup at least get a --progress option, similar to rsync, that gives an indication of how far the processing is? At the moment the main options seem to be: 1) Run in regular non-verbose mode, and don't see much of anything. For all we know, it has frozen. 2) Run with more verbosity. The messages aren't very intelligible or useful for end-users, a lot of the time. It would be great to get a display, something like this, when the user runs rdiff-backup with --progress: - Listing files (1000)... <- This number goes up as the files are listed - Processing files (500/1000, 50%, eta: 10:13:12) <- Progress updates as files are processed. Could something like the above be added to rdiff-backup? That way we can get an idea of how fast it's running, when it will complete, or if it has frozen. David. _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
