It bugged me that there really is no convenient way to keep tabs on your time machine backup other than typing "tmutil status" in the terminal every so often. So I wrote a script to track the progress.
Here's what it looks like:
If you would prefer KB (sometimes it's a good idea because it can get stuck copying lots of small files), I added that too:
The script is on Github here:
https://github.com/kgor93/TimeMachineProgressMonitor
All you would need to do is download it, run "chmod +x tmpct.sh" to add write permissions and then run it with the syntax:
For example,
It DOES create a folder called "tmscript" which is where the logs are stored that it uses for calculations, so keep that in mind.
Hope this helps!
Here's what it looks like:
Code:
Total number of iterations is 8 and the time between is 5 seconds.
The new percentage is 6.93885
The difference is 0.18381
Average Difference: 0.180406
New MBs transferred: 122
Total MBs transferred: 3362
Avg MB transferred b/w runs: 90.75
-----------------If you would prefer KB (sometimes it's a good idea because it can get stuck copying lots of small files), I added that too:
Code:
Total number of iterations is 4 and the time between is 2 seconds.
The new percentage is 4.0919
The difference is 0.17964
Average Difference: 0.11802
New KBs transferred: 88236
Total KBs transferred: 2009864
Avg KB transferred b/w runs: 51813
-----------------The script is on Github here:
https://github.com/kgor93/TimeMachineProgressMonitor
All you would need to do is download it, run "chmod +x tmpct.sh" to add write permissions and then run it with the syntax:
For example,
5 second iteration intervals and the changes are tracked in MB.
It DOES create a folder called "tmscript" which is where the logs are stored that it uses for calculations, so keep that in mind.
Hope this helps!
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