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A progress bar, estimation of time to completion

Whilst the program does the task of backing up well, it could do with perhaps a progress bar and an estimation of how long each task till take to complete.

Blackhat , 17.11.2019, 13:55
Idea status: under consideration

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Chris (Developer), 18.11.2019, 08:48
Thanks for this suggestion. That is a longtime suggestion I've heard, however I have chosen on-purpose not to implement it. I do understand that a lot of backup software does do this and that it can appear "lacking" without it. But from a technical perspective, getting the estimated backup time is actually very complex and depends on loads of factors, and honestly would likely be wrong anyway (I mean it might be in the ballpark but...). Most importantly, in order to estimate backup time, the program has to constantly keep evaluating to determine "where it's at" so that it can make its updated guesses. This by definition will slow down the backups. I've decided to just have SDB focus all its efforts on actually backing up the data and not bother with this "let's try and guess how much time might be left" thing. Maybe someday, but it's just not on the horizon.

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