> In any case, I think what our colleague is asking for is how > much transit bandwidth did a host consume during the backup > process, and this has nothing at all to do with pooling. The
Indeed, that's what I want to know: the really transferred bytes for that host-to-host connection (from the remote host to my backuppc server). Nothing concerning the backuppc pool... > bad news is, (AFAIK) that this data is not collected within > backuppc, and would need a different implementation for each > transfer method. The best suggestion I could make would be to > measure this at the network interface of your backuppc host. > ie, the simplest method to track bandwidth consumption for > rsyncd transfers is to add an iptables allow rule for traffic > to your client host on port 873 (or whatever the correct ip + > port is)... Well, if I'd achieve something like this, I guess I would be collecting *every single bit* (also commands issued and stuff like that). For my purpose, it would be sufficient to know that I transferred a total amount of 14 files, which sum up to 1034896 bytes. I tried to look at the log files, but I don't understand how to distinguish between the words like "pool", "same", "skip", "create"... If I could assume that all the "create" ones are really transferred bytes, I'd be summing them up with a simple bash script. But what about "pool" ones (I just imagine that "skip" and "same" are really NO TRANSFERS)? > Though, it would be nice if these stats could be collected by > backuppc, and stored in some clearly defined file, whereby > some other tool could easily collect the data and present it > in whatever format is desired... Regards, F. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/