[SOLVED] SOLVED:proxmox-backup-client show number of processed files (besides volume/gb ) ?

[RolandK]

is there a way to also have shown the number of processed files instead of volume/gb ?

i'm doing some runtime testing for backups with larger file count and i cannot estimate based on this information

i know i can set PBS_LOG=debug, but i'm really missing this as basic information. counting output lines is not the way to go

would open an RFE then

# proxmox-backup-client backup  root.pxar:/zfspool/backup/ci01-master --backup-id ci01-master --repository pbs01:proxmox-backup-client-test
Starting backup: host/ci01-master/2025-11-14T10:42:22Z
Client name: backupvm1
Starting backup protocol: Fri Nov 14 11:42:22 2025
No previous manifest available.
Upload directory '/zfspool/backup/ci01-master' to 'pbs01:proxmox-backup-client-test' as root.pxar.didx
processed 1.112 GiB in 1m, uploaded 1.108 GiB
processed 1.87 GiB in 2m, uploaded 1.613 GiB
processed 2.444 GiB in 3m, uploaded 2.187 GiB
processed 2.741 GiB in 4m, uploaded 2.482 GiB
processed 3.539 GiB in 5m, uploaded 3.277 GiB
processed 3.539 GiB in 6m, uploaded 3.277 GiB

 

[RolandK]

apparently, my question was a little bit too early

when switching to metadata for change detection, it now prints file information

i'm really impressed that proxmox-backup-client does an incremental run across 336254 and 106956 dirs in just 14s. i hardly can remember having seen such a fast backup tool

# proxmox-backup-client backup root.pxar:/zfspool/backup/ci01-master --backup-id ci01-master --change-detection-mode=metadata --repository pbs01:proxmox-backup-client-test
Starting backup: host/ci01-master/2025-11-14T12:03:54Z
Client name: backupvm1
Starting backup protocol: Fri Nov 14 13:03:54 2025
Downloading previous manifest (Fri Nov 14 13:01:11 2025)
Upload Directory '/zfspool/backup/ci01-master' to 'pbs01:proxmox-backup-client-test' as root.mpxar.didx
Using previous index as metadata reference for 'root.mpxar.didx'
Change detection summary:
 - 336254 total files (0 hardlinks)
 - 336253 unchanged, reusable files with 15.018 GiB data
 - 1 changed or non-reusable files with 203 B data
 - 1.128 MiB padding in 4 partially reused chunks
root.mpxar: had to backup 14.107 MiB of 62.806 MiB (compressed 1.421 MiB) in 13.92 s (average 1.014 MiB/s)
root.mpxar: backup was done incrementally, reused 48.699 MiB (77.5%)
root.ppxar: reused 15.019 GiB from previous snapshot for unchanged files (5625 chunks)
root.ppxar: had to backup 203 B of 15.019 GiB (compressed 148 B) in 13.93 s (average 14 B/s)
root.ppxar: backup was done incrementally, reused 15.019 GiB (100.0%)
Duration: 14.17s
End Time: Fri Nov 14 13:04:08 2025

 

[Chris]

Hi,
currently only the change detection mode set to metadata produces these outputs. Might be worth to show this information for other modes as well, e.g. guarded by a summary flag. Feel free to open an enhancement request in our bugzilla for this.

 

[RolandK]

done

https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7024