On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Tyler J. Wagner <tyler AT tolaris DOT 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

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