Hi, Tyler J. Wagner wrote on 2011-04-04 15:54:00 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Viewing detail of a backup in progress?]: > On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 09:41 -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat XferLOG.z |tail > > Note that the the log files, like XferLOG.z, are buffered. They may not > show files currently copying, if the log write buffer hasn't filled.
in particular, they are compressed, so the end of the file is in my experience usually a considerable amount behind the file currently copying. This is also the reason you can't simply "switch off buffering" for the log files (compression needs reasonably sized chunks to operate on for efficient results). It might make sense to think about (optionally) writing log files uncompressed and compressing them after the backup has finished. Wanting to follow backup progress seems to be a frequent enough requirement. Putting the log files on a disk separate from the pool FS should probably be encouraged in this case ;-). Regards, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ 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/
