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 > > >
