On 04/27/2010 02:39 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/27/2010 8:09 AM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: >> On Tuesday 27 April 2010 05:24:04 chitowner watertower wrote: >>> I would like to suggest- if any dev team members happen to see this- that >>> it would be a nifty option if some kind of progress indicator could be >>> added to the backupPC interface. AFAICT, when a backup is running, there >>> are no hourly additions to the log file, or anything else to show how >>> much >>> has been done in relation to the total job. >> >> I would be happy just to see the list of files copied so far when using >> rsync. >> It would be very helpful for identifying when large files in the wrong place >> are causing a backup to slow. > > Sometimes you can get an idea of what is happening by looking at what is > being stored in the pc/host/new directory as a backup runs.
Another trick I've often used is to run an strace command, limited to file access, on the backuppc dump process on the server: strace -e trace=file -p <pid> It'll list all the files as they get written to disk. Really handy. Cheers, Raman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
