Re: progress bar?

2021-05-14 Thread Eric L. Zolf
Hi, On 14/05/2021 09:29, griffin tucker wrote: i can try drafting some pseudo-code, but by the looks of things, it'd take some major restructuring - not impossible, though! I never said that it's impossible, but "major restructuring" is indeed in progress, and "not very difficult" is

Re: progress bar?

2021-05-14 Thread griffin tucker
i can try drafting some pseudo-code, but by the looks of things, it'd take some major restructuring - not impossible, though! i'll have a better look through the source to see if it's feasible - another option i'd want is to compress the last backup, not just the diffs, as well as choice of

Re: progress bar?

2021-05-14 Thread EricZolf
Hi, On 14/05/2021 08:42, griffin tucker wrote: > i don't think it's very difficult to implement this, just a matter of doing > an initial list of all files, tallying their file sizes, then comparing > this list to what's already in the backup (for missing/changed files, etc.) It's open source so

Re: progress bar?

2021-05-14 Thread griffin tucker
that's a good idea to use -v5, however in my use case i have lots of small files and a few very large files. google search suggestions seems to indicate that it's a feature that many people are looking for. i don't think it's very difficult to implement this, just a matter of doing an initial

Re: progress bar?

2021-04-26 Thread EricZolf
I doubt it, it wouldn't be very helpful and very synthetic if at all possible. I personally use rdiff-backup with -v5 and the alphabetic order of the files tells me where the backup has (roughly) arrived. KR, Eric On April 26, 2021 8:10:13 AM UTC, griffin tucker wrote: >would a progress bar