Status, Logging, Diagnostics?

[virtualbitz]

Hello,

I'm just getting started with Proxmox VE and PBS. I have my VM and container backup jobs working and am happy with the feature set so far.

When setting up my PVE host I decided to run ZFS and Samba on the bare metal PVE host itself. I have a dedicated PBS server in a remote datacenter about 5ms away with a 1G link. For backups of the Samba share I'm running proxmox-backup-client. I have about 1.5T of data that I'm backing up. I configured backups to run nightly via a cron job.

The issue that I'm having now is that the samba share backups are taking a very long time. I kicked one off at 3 AM last night and it's still running 5.5 hours later. I'm trying to figure out how to monitor the status of the job. With VM and LXC backups I can see the output in the UI if run manually, and via email if run on a schedule. What tools are available to monitor the status of larger backup jobs that run on the bare metal host?

EDIT: here is the command to kick off the job

# proxmox-backup-client backup smb.pxar:/tank/smb --repository backupuser@pbs@snapbs01.domain.local:virvh01-smb-backup

 

[virtualbitz]

After reading some other threads I upgraded from 0.9.0 to 0.9.7. I also added the --verbose flag and ran the command manually from the console and was able to manually watch its progress.

Is there a % complete indicator somewhere in the software?

 

[fabian]

After reading some other threads I upgraded from 0.9.0 to 0.9.7. I also added the --verbose flag and ran the command manually from the console and was able to manually watch its progress.

Is there a % complete indicator somewhere in the software?

no, since we can't know upfront how much the total backup will be..

 

[virtualbitz]

When I run a backup on a VM in PVE with a PBS server as a designation, in the PVE GUI it does give a % complete indicator in the status output. I'm trying to figure out how to collect that output from the bare metal client.

Would it be possible in a future software release to relay this to the PBS server? This would make it much easier to watch backup jobs from multiple datacenters.

 

[fabian]

for VMs you know how much data you want to backup up-front (dirty part of all backed up disk images). server side it's already different, as the client may not upload all that data (chunks that exist on the server are skipped).

 

[virtualbitz]

Okay yea I'm with you, that makes sense. Thanks!