Re: [Duplicity-talk] Re: Announcing Déjà Dup

[Gabriel Ambuehl]

Michael Terry wrote:
> That would be good.  Peter mentioned the difficulty of knowing
> particular files were being handled, or even how many volumes would
> end up being used.  Knowing such an upper limit would be crucial, as
> without an idea of the total scope (total number of volumes), I can't
> provide an actual progress bar.  A metric that provides both an end
> point and how-far-we-are-now would be most helpful.
>   

I think it's nigh impossible to really know how many volumes you are 
going to need because it is very hard to forecast how well the data will 
compress...
I think I would base the metric on the percentage of *uncompressed* data 
already having been handled stipulating that on average, data will be 
compressed by the same factor.