Yup, that looks really handy, but it probably doesn't give an overview of the total job. the proportionality thing is what I;m more interested in. CT
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Raman Gupta <[email protected]>wrote: > On 04/27/2010 02:39 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On 4/27/2010 8:09 AM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > >> On Tuesday 27 April 2010 05:24:04 chitowner watertower wrote: > >>> I would like to suggest- if any dev team members happen to see this- > that > >>> it would be a nifty option if some kind of progress indicator could > be > >>> added to the backupPC interface. AFAICT, when a backup is running, > there > >>> are no hourly additions to the log file, or anything else to show > how much > >>> has been done in relation to the total job. > >> > >> I would be happy just to see the list of files copied so far when using > rsync. > >> It would be very helpful for identifying when large files in the wrong > place > >> are causing a backup to slow. > > > > Sometimes you can get an idea of what is happening by looking at what is > > being stored in the pc/host/new directory as a backup runs. > > Another trick I've often used is to run an strace command, limited to > file access, on the backuppc dump process on the server: > > strace -e trace=file -p <pid> > > It'll list all the files as they get written to disk. Really handy. > > Cheers, > Raman > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ >
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