On Wednesday 09 July 2008 15:32:49 Eric Bollengier wrote: > > > Now that would be so totally kewl. The only thing that would be so > > > totally kooler would be if there was a way to show a percent done. > > > That would require calculating the job before running it though which > > > may be a burden. It could always assume that the number of bytes it > > > needs to back up is similar to the number of bytes backed up on the > > > previous instance of the job. Naaa, then what do you do for > > > incremental and differential, Ugh. > > > > Yes, a "real-time" display of the bytes and files saved along with a > > periodic refresh would already be a nice enhancement. If you want, I > > could easily add code to Bacula core to give you a rough estimate of what > > the total files/bytes will be -- thus you could put a % complete. It > > could get that information by making an average of say the last 100 jobs > > run for that Job name of the same level. It would not be perfect but it > > might be pretty good. > > I have done this work on bweb to get a progress bar with a good estimation, > (based on file number, and backup size) > the most simple is to define a dummy function that does just a AVG() of the > last 3 jobs. We can be more accurate later. > > For example, postgresql provides rich statistic SQL functions, you can > do lineal regression (not just an average...) and it works very well.
Cool or kewl as Dirk says. > > Bye ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
