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?

- dpb

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Colin Percival <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 09/06/12 19:08, David Prager Branner wrote:
>
> > When a large backup is taking place, Tarsnap shows no signs of life.
> I've been
>
> > using the -v option as a way of making sure it's alive and active. But I
> wonder
>
> > if there isn't some less time-consuming way of letting it tell me that
> it's work
>
> > — a slow-updating activity bar or something of that sort.
>
>
>
> What do you mean by "time-consuming" exactly?  Printing names of files is
> not
>
> exactly CPU-intensive.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Colin Percival
>
> Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
>
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
>
>
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