[gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup feature request

[Marcus Koenig]

I'm using this one liner to get the progress

grep 'mmbackup:Backup job finished'|cut -d ":" -f 6|awk '{print $1}'|awk
'{s+=$1}END{print s}'

That can be compared to the files identified during the scan.

On Wed, 6 Sept 2023, 21:29 Stephan Graf, <st.graf at fz-juelich.de> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I think it should be possible because mmbackup know, how many files are
> to be backed up, which have been already processed and how many are
> still to go.
>
> BTW it would also be nice to have an option in mmbackup to generate
> machine readable log file like JSON or CSV.
>
> But the right way to ask for a new feature or to look if there is
> already a request open is the IBM IDEA portal:
>
> https://ideas.ibm.com
>
> Stephan
>
> On 9/6/23 11:02, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
> >
> > Would it be possible to have the mmbackup output display the percentage
> > output progress when backing up files?
> >
> > So at the top we you see something like this
> >
> > Tue Sep  5 23:13:35 2023 mmbackup:changed=747204, expired=427702,
> > unsupported=0 for server [XXXX]
> >
> > Then after it does the expiration you see during the backup lines like
> >
> > Wed Sep  6 02:43:53 2023 mmbackup:Backing up files: 527024 backed up,
> > 426018 expired, 4408 failed. (Backup job exit with 4)
> >
> > It would IMHO be helpful if it looked like
> >
> > Wed Sep  6 02:43:53 2023 mmbackup:Backing up files: 527024 (70.5%)
> > backed up, 426018 (100%) expired, 4408 failed. (Backup job exit with 4)
> >
> > Just based on the number of files. Though as I look at it now I am
> > curious about the discrepancy in the number of files expired, given that
> > the expiration stage allegedly concluded with no errors?
> >
> > Tue Sep  5 23:21:49 2023 mmbackup:Completed policy expiry run with 0
> > policy errors, 0 files failed, 0 severe errors, returning rc=0.
> > Tue Sep  5 23:21:49 2023 mmbackup:Policy for expiry returned 0 Highest
> > TSM error 0
> >
> >
> >
> > JAB.
> >
>
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> Stephan Graf
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