Actually, comment from a couple of USERS... you know the people who all this stuff is for [?] One of my users asked for some help with setup - He wanted to be familiar with the system for day-to-day operation.
His comment was :-
> "Great but why does everything to do with Linux seem to be "Technical" -
>> why can't we just have Hours and Minutes, Gb rather than 1000Mb"
>
>
I did explain this was OpenSource and done on a volunatry basis.
"Pointlessly nurdy" he replied - "no wonder people don't take it (Linux)
seriously"
You have to admit, he that has a very valid point [?]
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Holger Parplies <wb...@parplies.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Bharat Mistry wrote on 2009-05-15 15:57:57 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
> [SUGGESTION] "Duration/mins" not in decimal format]:
> > and 31.21 GB instead of 31214312331231 bytes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> ("." instead of "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", too? :)
>
> > Ability to email a list of files backed up per host "wood" me kool
> too.....
>
> thank you for making this point (though I don't suppose you *wanted* to
> make
> it).
>
> > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Boniforti Flavio <fla...@piramide.ch
> >wrote:
> >
> > > I am not used to consider minutes in decimal format (like 36.8
> minutes).
>
> I don't think you are supposed to. The point of the web page, as I
> understand
> it, is to give you a rough idea of what is going on. Seeing a list of
> figures
> 36.8, 37.1, 35.9, 36.4, 242.8, 37.3 ... makes the full backup (or problem,
> or
> whatever) stand out much more than if you obfuscate it into 4h2m48s. A list
> like 36.1, 36.1, 36.2, 36.3, 36.7, 36.8 ... gives you much more of an
> impression of how the times are developping than 36m6s, 36m12s, ... would.
> If you want more than a rough idea (or rather, if you have better use of
> your
> time than staring at the statistics), you'll try to automatically process
> the
> numbers, and parsing "4h2m48s" into something you can calculate with will
> be
> nothing less than a nuisance (and, yes, if you're backuppc on the BackupPC
> server, you can parse the backups files, but if you only have HTTP access
> to
> one client's host page, you can't). Similarly, you won't enjoy the reduced
> precision of 31.21 GB. If you are generating an email summary, for
> instance,
> you can always convert the numbers to whatever format you want, and it's
> still
> easier to convert 242.8 minutes than to translate "4hours 2mins 48secs" to
> a
> different language or shift the whitespace around to match your taste.
>
> > > Would it be possible to convert that data into time format (like
> > > 36m48sec) and extend the same thing to hours (not anymore 242.8minutes,
> > > but instead 4hours 2mins 48sec)?
>
> Yes, but who's the target audience? Are you saying you *need* to know more
> than "my full backups take somewhere between 4 and 5 hours"? If it's less
> than
> 4h17m25s it's ok, but if it's more, you'll need to speed it up somehow?
>
> As for the seconds, I'd argue to rather drop them(*). They're almost
> certainly
> below the exactness of the measurement (well, yes, the backup *did* take 36
> minutes and 13.7 seconds, but that the next backup took 36 minutes and 50
> seconds probably tells you more about the state of the machines and the
> link
> at that time than about the backup itself in relation to the other one).
> Measure with a micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with an axe.
>
> Regards,
> Holger
>
> (*) Well, no, keep them. They don't hurt as long as they're just decimal
> minutes :).
>
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