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Tiny Core Base => TCB Talk => Topic started by: jls on January 07, 2011, 06:06:48 AM

Title: [SUGGESTION] timed backups
Post by: jls on January 07, 2011, 06:06:48 AM

 ;D

Title: Re: [SUGGESTION] timed backups
Post by: curaga on January 07, 2011, 09:12:07 AM

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

Title: Re: [SUGGESTION] timed backups
Post by: tinypoodle on January 07, 2011, 04:59:25 PM

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.

Title: Re: [SUGGESTION] timed backups
Post by: tinypoodle on January 07, 2011, 05:30:42 PM

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  :P

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

Title: Re: [SUGGESTION] timed backups
Post by: tinypoodle on January 07, 2011, 11:20:03 PM

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

Found another approach in the meantime:

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time -v  filetool.sh backup

(this would probably only be useful for CLI commands)

Title: Re: [SUGGESTION] timed backups
Post by: jls on January 11, 2011, 07:08:50 AM

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