Tim writes: > I am *very* open to suggestions on how I might implement this more > cleanly. The script works, but there is a very long pause while the > script does the format. If I take the "> /dev/null" out, I get lots of > lines like this:
One approach is to use AJAX (ie: a javascript http request object) to get updates on the progress of the format and updating a progress bar, without redrawing the whole page each time. It also avoids locking up one of the apache server processes. However, it's definitely not very easy to do... Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/