Back In Time

Progress bar?

Asked by steve

I just discovered backintime and it works really nice, thanks to the developers! One thing I would like to ask: Would it be possible to add some progress bar or estimate the remaining time needed to perform the backup and display this to the user?

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Bart de Koning (bratdaking) said : 		#1

Hard to implement, as it is hard to predict on forehand what needs to be done, however if you can file this as a [enhancement] bug we will put it on the wishlist and think about it

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Arek Olek (arekolek) said : 		#2

Well, Grsync has progress bar http://i41.tinypic.com/51odtx.png

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Gabriel_P (gabp) said : 		#3

Some indication of progress, *any* indication would be nice.

BIT has been working for ~4 hours now and I have absolutely no idea if it will take it 1 more hour to finish or 2 days.

Every file manager displays an approximation of the time needed to finish when one copies something to a folder. The underlying process can't be that different here.

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Germar (germar) said : 		#4

Gabriel,
please upgrade BIT to >= 1.1.0 and rsync >= 3.1 and you will have a progress bar.

Regards,
Germar

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