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From: Paul Waring <paul@xk7.net>
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:36:05 +0100
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Subject: Re: More informative Obnam progress reporting
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On 19/06/17 15:32, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> It struck me the other day that it would be nice if Obnam could give
> more progress feedback reporting:
> 
> * position in current file: some files are very large and it taks a
>    long time to check them completely
> 
> * how much duplicate data is NOT uploaded in this run
> 
> * how far in the backup we are, compared to previous generatation
> 
> * momentary upload speed, both raw and "effective" (chunk data only)
> 
> What do others think?

This would definitely be useful, although the other 'progress' area that 
I think could be improved is when attempting to mount for restoring. If 
you have a lot of generations (>500 did it for me) then obnam sits there 
with no progress indication and you have no idea whether it's working, 
stuck in a loop, hung etc.

-- 
Paul Waring
Freelance consultant
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