Brad Alexander wrote: > Hi gang, > > Hope everyone had a great Christmas, Hanukkah, or whatever you celebrate, > and look forward to a good and prosperous new year. > > One of my Christmas presents this year was an upgrade for my desktop. > Since it had been 4 or 5 years, and I had accumulated a kind of > frankenbox, I decided to do a "nuke and pave." (actually, I decided to > downsize the drive and put more stuff on the file server) > > So...I ran a full backup of the machine, rebuilt over the new year, and > started restoring. The following are a few observations and suggestions > for the next version of backuppc based on my experiences: > > 1. I would like to see better feedback of status of restores, similar to > what we have with backups. It seems to me that there is very little > logging of restores (unless I am looking in the wrong place). For > instance, I started a restore of my home directory, and while I could see > a limited amount of increase in the used in df, however, after running > overnigth, it did not apparently complete...Since there are still things > missing, including .ssh and several other config files. So there was no > indication of the status of the backup. The only thing in the log file is: > > 2012-01-02 19:59:18 restore started below directory /home to host defiant > I have: 2012-01-07 11:43:01 restore started below directory D to host st-srv-xp 2012-01-07 12:01:11 restore 51 complete (4629 files, 313681638 bytes, 0 dirs, 0 xferErrs) > but no indication if it completed. I had also queued other restores, and > they did not complete either. Since I can't get any kind of indication, I > am doing the restore to a tar file on the laptop and then scp'ing and > restoring by hand. > > I was thinking that perhaps a status bar color change in the hosts summary > (we already have green for system backing up, yellow for no ping, gray for > manual/disabled backups...perhaps blue for restore in progress?) Yes - nice idea > > Perhaps a status of queued restores, a little more logging, maybe a flow > indicator? I know I can use tcpdump, but perhaps backuppc could include a > restore percentage indicator? The final suggestion would be to have a way > to stop a restore, similar to the stop/dequeue backup button. Yes - nice idea. Especially "flow indicator" with is also usefull for the backup progress. > > Thanks, > --b
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