script that shows progress in a tar backup

[Andrew Kaplan]

Hi there --

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

[Tingli]

Why not using tar -v?

[Andrew Kaplan]

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.

[Patrick Wallek]

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.

[Andrew Kaplan]

Hi there --

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

Thanks anyway for the help.

[Marco A.]

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

http://clpbar.sourceforge.net/

Best regards,

Marco,