[SUGGESTION] timed backups

[jls]

 

[curaga]

You can do that via cron, su tc -c "filetool.sh -b", IIRC.

[tinypoodle]

Not sure but I had first interpreted the title of thread as showing a timer during backup (like a stop watch).

Perhaps I was prejudiced as recently I had done some benchmarking on backup, including recompressing it with various algorhythms and comparing time and compression rate.

Actually I would love to have something like  a stop watch timer to be used for any purpose.

[tinypoodle]

I didn't have ETA in mind, but a timer like a stopwatch to accurately measure time of some task.

bash script sounds good, except for me not having enough knowledge, and none whatsoever about that mystery syntax involved with awk 

Perhaps 'watch' could be used instead of 'echo'?

[tinypoodle]

Very nice!
First the aterm poofed when stopping, now after you edited I see it can work accumulative  

Found another approach in the meantime:

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time -v  filetool.sh backup

(this would probably only be useful for CLI commands)

[jls]

for timed backup I'm using execwatch e17 module/gadget (from e-modules-extra.tcz)