Brad Alexander wrote:

> Hi gang,
> 
> Hope everyone had a great Christmas, Hanukkah, or whatever you celebrate,
> and look forward to a good and prosperous new year.
> 
> One of my Christmas presents this year was an upgrade for my desktop.
> Since it had been 4 or 5 years, and I had accumulated a kind of
> frankenbox, I decided to do a "nuke and pave." (actually, I decided to
> downsize the drive and put more stuff on the file server)
> 
> So...I ran a full backup of the machine, rebuilt over the new year, and
> started restoring. The following are a few observations and suggestions
> for the next version of backuppc based on my experiences:
> 
> 1. I would like to see better feedback of status of restores, similar to
> what we have with backups. It seems to me that there is very little
> logging of restores (unless I am looking in the wrong place). For
> instance, I started a restore of my home directory, and while I could see
> a limited amount of increase in the used in df, however, after running
> overnigth, it did not apparently complete...Since there are still things
> missing, including .ssh and several other config files. So there was no
> indication of the status of the backup. The only thing in the log file is:
> 
> 2012-01-02 19:59:18 restore started below directory /home to host defiant
> 
I have:
2012-01-07 11:43:01 restore started below directory D to host st-srv-xp
2012-01-07 12:01:11 restore 51 complete (4629 files, 313681638 bytes, 0 
dirs, 0 xferErrs)
> but no indication if it completed. I had also queued other restores, and
> they did not complete either. Since I can't get any kind of indication, I
> am doing the restore to a tar file on the laptop and then scp'ing and
> restoring by hand.
> 
> I was thinking that perhaps a status bar color change in the hosts summary
> (we already have green for system backing up, yellow for no ping, gray for
> manual/disabled backups...perhaps blue for restore in progress?)
Yes - nice idea
> 
> Perhaps a  status of queued restores, a little more logging, maybe a flow
> indicator? I know I can use tcpdump, but perhaps backuppc could include a
> restore percentage indicator? The final suggestion would be to have a way
> to stop a restore, similar to the stop/dequeue backup button.
Yes - nice idea. Especially "flow indicator" with is also usefull for the 
backup progress.
> 
> Thanks,
> --b

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