On 12/22/2010 8:49 AM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
>
> 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
Thanks this is very help!
> 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.
>
Looks like it is stuck on one file.  ** Would it help to stop backuppc 
and restart the job?  Will it be faster the second time?

> I had a problem recently where rsync restores failed if they ran longer
> than 12 seconds or so. The problem turned out to be /tmp having the
> wrong permissions. Make sure it is mode 1777 (rwxrwxrwt).
This seems to be ok.

Thanks again for everyone's help!

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