Re: [BackupPC-users] Status for running backup

[David R. <dr...@gm...>]

On 6/9/06, Bowie Bailey <Bow...@bu...> wrote:
> Harry Mangalam wrote:
> > I agree this is a problem - what I do is run iftop on a server
> > console to see what's transferring from what hosts at what rates.  If
> > you keep it running, it will give you a pretty good idea what's
> > happening
>
> Not a bad idea.  I may try it the next time I have to run a manual
> backup.

The other thing you can do is run strace on the backup process as well.

-Dave