diff --git a/scripts/webui/webui_updater.sh b/scripts/webui/webui_updater.sh
index 1972558..e6f58fc 100755
--- a/scripts/webui/webui_updater.sh
+++ b/scripts/webui/webui_updater.sh
@@ -89,7 +89,12 @@ webuiLibrePortalUpdate() {
                 checkSuccess "Refreshed ${_app} WebUI data..."
             done
 
-            # Generate Backup locations / snapshots / engines / dashboards
+            # Generate Backup locations / snapshots / engines / dashboards.
+            # Announce before running: snapshot generation reaches remote backup
+            # locations (restic over SSH), and the whole chain's output is
+            # captured below, so without this the update looks frozen mid-fetch
+            # — noticeable on slow connections.
+            isNotice "Refreshing backup dashboard data (fetches remote snapshots — may take a while on slow connections)..."
             local result; result=$(webuiGenerateBackupLocations && webuiGenerateBackupDashboard && webuiGenerateBackupSnapshots all && webuiGenerateBackupAppStatus && webuiGenerateBackupEngines && webuiGenerateBackupSchema && webuiGenerateBackupPasswords && webuiGenerateBackupMigrate)
             checkSuccess "Refreshed backup dashboard data..."