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Question #187955 on Duplicity changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/187955

    Status: Open => Answered

edso proposed the following answer:
On 16.02.2012 17:41, Gabriel A. Zorrilla wrote:
> New question #187955 on Duplicity:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/187955
> 
> There is an "answered" question regarding the lack of progress bar and it's related to use Deja-Dup. Well, Deja-Dup sucks (at least its implementation in Ubuntu 11.10). It lacks all the options a CLI Duplicity can do for you. 

you should probably step a bit on your brake here ;) and come up with a
better graphical frontend before being judgemental on a frontend that is
proven to be in use and working.

>I cant even tell you how bad and limited it is.

exactly my point ;)

>Well, anyway, is there a way to implement a progress bar either by Duplicity options or using any other tool in a script?
> 

the author of deja-dup wanted to do this and the easiest way was a
--dry-run to see what should happen and run it "wet" afterwards and
somehow interpreting the textual output of duplicity into a
progressmeter.

if you take the time to have a look at duplicity source you will see
that it at no point has an idea how much of the backup/restore is done
already. it marches through folders or backup data and checks for
certain conditions to react accordingly but that's it.

in conclusion: this is more heavy lifting than it looks like, and you
are welcome to tackle this.

..ede/duply.net

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