On 2024-09-28 13:19, Robert Nichols via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
wrote:
(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.
Thank you! That was helpful. I've been using it to monitor and I can see
rdiff-backup going through various files. I'm still not sure what it's
doing but at least I can see that it's doing something. My guess is that
it's going to verify everything, which will take a long, long time.
