Author: martin f krafft <madduck AT madduck DOT net>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 14:59:13 +0200
Hey, some of the backup processes here run for hours, and there are often reasons why I want to check on what's going on. How do you monitor backups in real-time? XferLOG.z can't be tail'd, and attac
Author: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 00:04:35 +1000
I've used ls -l /proc/pid/fds or strace or lsof etc... all work, some are better on the client rather than the backuppc server. I've also used tail -f XferLOG | Backuppc_zcat which does work, but doe
Author: Tony Schreiner <anthony.schreiner AT bc DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 09:52:32 -0400
You can follow XferLog with /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_zcat <pathto>/XferLOG.z | tail but it is buffered, so not completely current Also on the backup host, you can get the process id of the c
In the past, I've used things similar to what's mentioned at these pages: http://sysadminnotebook.blogspot.nl/2011/09/watch-backuppc-progress.html http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-
Author: martin f krafft <madduck AT madduck DOT net>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 20:52:15 +0200
also sprach Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au> [2016-08-04 16:04 +0200]: In fact, I found none of those useful on the server. I've tried this, but I get: /usr/share/backuppc/
Author: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 09:31:15 +1000
Sorry, I've not used BPC 3.x in years... Maybe try this: tail -f -n +0 blah.log | /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat - You need to include the beginning of the file or else it won't detect the com
Author: martin f krafft <madduck AT madduck DOT net>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 09:20:37 +0200
also sprach Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au> [2016-08-05 01:31 +0200]: This makes perfect sense and works; thanks! Well, yeah, except at the moment, I can't really rely on