There's also a logfile that it generates some in the rdiff dir under
the backup destination isn't there?

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Sabuj Pattanayek <sab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Assuming you don't have access to the system or can't see any hard
> drive lights blinking rapidly, check lsof | grep -i rdiff to see if
> the list of files that it's touching is changing . You can also check
> dstat -d or iostat -d 1 to see if there's lots of I/O occurring
>
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Eric Beversluis
> <ebe...@researchintegration.org> wrote:
>> I've had an rdiff backup running for about  1 1/2 hrs or longer. This is
>> much longer than it's ever taken in the past.  Is there a way I can check
>> that it's still running right? I hate to just abort it at this point.
>>
>> Related: what can I safely do on the computer while the rdiff-backup is
>> running? Does it work off a snapshot or does it get messed up if I change
>> files while it's running?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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