Show progress as snapshots are made

[seanh]

Need to find a way to run a subprocess and gets its exit value, stdout and stderr, while also echoing the stdout and stderr to our stdout and stderr in real-time.

[beddari]

Quite a hard problem to solve ... so perhaps https://github.com/pexpect/pexpect ?

[seanh]

Thanks, that does look useful

[beddari]

This code looks like a quite developed example, not tested it https://github.com/cloudfirst/eduCloud/blob/master/webconfig/piplib/sharelib/educloud-luhyaapi/luhyaapi/rsyncWrapper.py

[seanh]

Wow, great find! Pull requests totally welcome for this by the way, if not I will get round to it myself eventually. As long as they keep the code really simple which is sort of snapshotter's imperative