Open nicfab opened 4 months ago
AFAICS, you need to do two things to make autorestic
echo restic
's progress info:
--verbose
flag to autorestic
.Set the RESTIC_PROGRESS_FPS
env var, which tells restic
how frequently to show progress information. As described in the restic docs:
When running from a non-interactive console progress reporting is disabled by default to not fill your logs. For interactive and non-interactive consoles the environment variable
RESTIC_PROGRESS_FPS
can be used to control the frequency of progress reporting. Use for example 0.016666 to only update the progress once per minute.
When restic
is being run via autorestic
, it detects it's in a non-interactive console progress, so it disables progress reporting by default; this env var lets you switch it back on.
So e.g. you could have an .autorestic.yml
something like this, to give updates every 10 seconds:
version: 2
global:
all:
verbose: true
extras:
env: &access
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: XXX
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: XXX
RESTIC_PROGRESS_FPS: 0.1
locations:
foo:
from: /mnt/foo
to: s3-foo
bar:
from: /mnt/bar
to: s3-bar
backends:
foo:
type: s3
path: XXX
env:
<<: *access
bar:
type: s3
path: XXX
env:
<<: *access
HTH.
Thank you. I was actually referring to a progress bar, which says the percentage.
OK but you get something like this:
[0:23] 1.07% 149 files 105.819 MiB, total 1200 files 9.619 GiB, 0 errors ETA 35:17
That isn't a progress bar, but it does show a percentage, file count, size, ETA...? 🤷♂️
I want to be clear: you know that there are expert, medium, and newbie users. I consider myself an expert user., although I am not a technical. My comment is only a suggestion to provide users the opportunity (optional) for a more straightforward process view. During the backup process, with the verbose mode, you see a lot of information scrolling that (probably) makes it difficult for a medium or newbie user to follow. In the past, I used "resticprofile", which shows a progress bar with the percentage; that way, the user knows the situation and whether it will take a few or a long time. A simple progress bar with some additional backup and transfer information (e.g., on S3) might be a solution for a simpler view.
Aha. Yes, in that case: agreed, that would be useful.
Hi! I am new to autorestic. I didn't find any resources related to the subject. It will be helpful, during the backup, to show the percentage related to the progress status. Currently, after running the backup of a single location via the command
autorestic -v backup -l locationname
I see only:As you can see, the last two rows show only that the backup started, but I cannot know how many files, the percentage status, etc.