(Looks like I hit "Reply" instead of "Followup". Posting this to the list now.)
On 9/27/24 17:00, Duffer wrote:
It's been running 18 hours, so I hate to break it again but I really wish I
could figure out what it's doing. One of the backup directories (where I see
the tmp files) keeps growing and shrinking.
If you find the PID of the rdiff-backup process ("pgrep -l rdiff-backup") you
can run
ls -l /proc/{PID}/fd
and see what files it is working on. You'll probably want to run that on the server.
Something along the lines of "readlink /proc/{PID}/fd/9" will show just the
appropriate link. For a locally run rdiff-backup, the FD is more likely 13. That link
won't always be there.
Here's a quickie I sometimes use:
N=50; while ((--N)); do readlink /proc/{PID}/fd/9 && break; sleep 0.2; done
You can also use the "watch" for a continuous display of changes.
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