On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Tyler J. Wagner <ty...@tolaris.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 08:21 -0500, gimili wrote: >> I left it running all night and it is still not done. It shows it >> running in the web interface but when I do a "df" on the target >> machine the "Used Available Use%" are not changing at all which make >> me think that it is not working plus it should have been done by now. > > My biggest complaint about BackupPC (and I have few), is that both > backups and restores show nothing when in progress. At least with rsync. > I'd prefer something like a way to see the last 10 files copied, or > something, just to see what it is doing. > > Gimili, you can run this on the target machine: > > for i in `ps -ef | grep rsync | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2};'` ; do > lsof -n | grep $i ; done > > This will list all open files currently in use by any processes named > "rsync". A few of those will be the files currently being read or > written. You can use this to see what is happening.
I wonder if you could use "iotop" as well. It should show the rsync process and how much (or more precisely how fast) it is writing to disk. Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester recently released a report on the Return on Investment (ROI) of Google Apps. They found a 300% ROI, 38%-56% cost savings, and break-even within 7 months. Over 3 million businesses have gone Google with Google Apps: an online email calendar, and document program that's accessible from your browser. Read the Forrester report: http://p.sf.net/sfu/googleapps-sfnew _______________________________________________ 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/