Boniforti Flavio wrote:
>> I guess you could track the transfer times and sizes for each 
>> host/share, but there is a philosophical/practical issue in 
>> tracking the storage space since it is pooled and there is no 
>> handy way to tell which, if any, other hosts have links to a 
>> common file.  In terms of real space consumed, all of your 
>> targets can have multiple copies of some large file and it 
>> will barely take any more room than one single copy on one host.
> 
> Yes, I was indeed thinking about the same thing too: because of
> "pooling" it's somehow unprecise defining the effective space used.
> Therefore I will be assuming that the data showing in the "Host Summary"
> is the space consumed by each single host.
> 
> But is there any way to know how much data has been transferred from the
> start of the backup process until its end? 

I don't know about the accuracy of the numbers, but I always assumed 
that the duration (*60)times the MB/sec for the same backup run would 
give me the bytes transferred.  But if you are looking for bottlenecks 
you might need to note that rsync incrementals take quite a bit of 
wall-clock time even though they may transfer a tiny amount of data.

For non-rsync xfers, the transfer size should be the same as the file 
size, with everything except the 'new' files discarded after the 
transfer and replace will pool links.

In all cases, this would be skewed if you add the '-C' (compression) 
option to the ssh command since that would happen before backuppc sees 
the data.


-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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