topic Re: script that shows progress in a tar backup in Operating System - HP-UX

script that shows progress in a tar backup

Andrew Kaplan — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:29:34 GMT

Hi there --

Does anyone know of a way within a script to display the progress of a tar backup? Thanks.

Re: script that shows progress in a tar backup

Tingli — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:35:10 GMT

Why not using tar -v?

Re: script that shows progress in a tar backup

Andrew Kaplan — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:37:49 GMT

Hi there --

Thanks for your reply. The -v option would indeed show on-screen what is being backed up during the operation.

What I am looking for is along the lines of percentage completed of the files that are being backed up.

Re: script that shows progress in a tar backup

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:01:38 GMT

That would imply some intelligence on the part of 'tar' to know beforehand how many files and/or how much data is being backed up.

'tar' has no such intelligence.

Re: script that shows progress in a tar backup

Andrew Kaplan — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:06:03 GMT

Hi there --

I think I found the solution with a third-party application known as clpbar.

Thanks anyway for the help.

Re: script that shows progress in a tar backup

Marco A. — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:19:58 GMT

It's also good document this thing .., I didn't know it at least.

http://clpbar.sourceforge.net/

Best regards,

Marco,