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Feedback on actual backup data I/O #1033

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Output of restic version

restic 0.6.1

How did you start restic exactly? (Include the complete command line)

restic backup / --exclude-file $HOME/.restic.excluded

What backend/server/service did you use?

S3

Expected behavior

Restic should output statistics about data actually sent (and possibly received) in addition to processed data. Could be live feedback, could be a summary (rsync style), could be both.

Example:

[16:16] 100.00%  7.349 MiB/s  6.983 GiB / 6.983 GiB  548143 / 548144 items  17MiB in  123.4MiB out  0 errors  ETA 0:02

Actual behavior

[16:16] 100.00%  7.349 MiB/s  6.983 GiB / 6.983 GiB  548143 / 548144 items  0 errors  ETA 0:02

Restic outputs progress based on data processed but lacks progress on data actually sent. When evaluating restic as a backup solution I had to do some third party monitoring to estimate the actual savings and eventual bandwidth cost. As it is it gives the initial impression it does a full backup every time.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Do a backup.

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