Hello, I have an rdiff-backup process that has been running for 17 days with the following output:
Warning, could not find mirror_metadata file. Metadata will be read from filesystem instead. Is there any way for me to check how much progress rdiff-backup has made and whether I should expect this to finish in the next couple days? top shows rdiff-backup fluctuating around 8-14% cpu and iotop shows disk read 10-12 MB/sec (with disk write at 0 when I checked), and the backup is about 10TB in size. backup.log just shows what was written to stdout. This job normally completes in 1-6 hours. What is rdiff-backup doing and can I estimate how long it should take to finish? Even if it has to read the whole 10TB at 10MB/sec, that should still have finished in about 12 days. Here is the exact command I am running: rdiff-backup --backup-mode --exclude-other-filesystems --include /grail/bam --include /grail/projects --include /grail/TONY --exclude /grail /grail/ /crusader/backup/rdiff-backup/grail Maybe it has to read both the backup directory and the target directory so maybe I should estimate it will take ~24 days to finish this run with my very slow IO? For context, a couple weeks ago, rdiff-backup failed when the filesystem ran out of space, and when it ran again it failed regressing with "Exception 'Bad index order...". So I deleted the earlier of the two .data files and moved the later .snapshot.gz file out of the way based off the suggestion at http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html#regress_failure . Could my strange exclude everything then include just a couple sub-directories be contributing to the slow time? (I made this change after I ran out of space.) I have some more notes here: https://github.com/BradnerLab/pipeline/issues/41 I am a part time volunteer at an open source cancer research lab and we have some important genetic and research data to backup. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, John _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
