Wow, that's much more technically advanced than I was as a teenager! Way to go! To print progress with tarsnap 1.0.39, send it a SIGUSR1 or SIGINFO. On FreeB

Wow, that's much more technically advanced than I was as a teenager! Way to go! To print progress with tarsnap 1.0.39, send it a SIGUSR1 or SIGINFO. On FreeBSD, you can do this by pressing ctrl-t. On Linux, you have to use the unfortunately-named `kill` or `killall` command, such as killall -SIGUSR1 tarsnap https://www.tarsnap.com/tips.html#check-current https://www.tarsnap.com/tips.html#check-current (Note that Tarsnap is not responsible for naming the unix `kill` or `killall` commands.) In the unreleased git version of tarsnap, there's a `--progress-bytes SIZE` command, which prints a progress message after every SIZE bytes are processed. As a general note: the tarsnap-users mailing list is a great place to ask for tips. As you mentioned in your lessons learned, some of the options could have helped a lot (such as `--recover`) https://www.tarsnap.com/lists.html https://www.tarsnap.com/lists.html (Disclaimer: I'm employed by Tarsnap Backup Inc.)