Hi Scott,

> Is it possible/how to view details on a backup in progress - for
> example, it would be great to see what file it is backing up, how
> many/how big the backup is so far.  Totals would be nice, like 100
> files totaling 200MB backed up out of 500 files totaling 2GB.
> 
> I have a slow backup and I have no idea how far along it is.

I don't any suggestions on measuring % completion or throughput, but
if you are using rsync on an OS that has strace available, you can do
something like:
  # strace -fp `pidof rsync` -e open
  [..]
  open("usr/lib/chromium-browser/xdg-mime", O_RDONLY) = 3
  open("usr/lib/chromium-browser/xdg-settings", O_RDONLY) = 3
  open("usr/lib/cli/Mono.Addins-0.2/Mono.Addins.dll", O_RDONLY) = 3
  [..]

on the host you are backing up.

You can do something similar on the backuppc server but you'll see I/O activity
on the file pool path, which may or may not be of use to you.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Chris Bennett (cgb)

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