On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:01:06AM +0930, Chris Bennett wrote:
> > Is it possible/how to view details on a backup in progress - for
> > example, it would be great to see what file it is backing up, how
> > many/how big the backup is so far. Totals would be nice, like 100
> > files totaling 200MB backed up out of 500 files totaling 2GB.
> >
> > I have a slow backup and I have no idea how far along it is.
>
> I don't any suggestions on measuring % completion or throughput, but
> if you are using rsync on an OS that has strace available, you can do
> something like:
> # strace -fp `pidof rsync` -e open
> [..]
> open("usr/lib/chromium-browser/xdg-mime", O_RDONLY) = 3
> open("usr/lib/chromium-browser/xdg-settings", O_RDONLY) = 3
> open("usr/lib/cli/Mono.Addins-0.2/Mono.Addins.dll", O_RDONLY) = 3
> [..]
>
> on the host you are backing up.
>
> You can do something similar on the backuppc server but you'll see
> I/O activity on the file pool path, which may or may not be of use to you.
Also lsof -p <rsync pid> can show you which files are open. Similarly
for the server on the backuppc system.
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