heroku/WAL-E — Issue #31: 'progress' file.
Author: freeformz
Created: 2012-01-27 23:10:14+00:00
State: open

As an alternative to #20 (although I think #20 would be good in any case).

It would be nice for wal-e to update a progress file for operations. Software monitoring the status of WAL-E could check that file and if no progress has been made (i.e. the counter hasn't changed), then alert.

Other ideas welcome, I just don't think redirecting the output to a file and parsing/grepping it is a good solution and makes the interface too big.