Backup and Restore Progress

[Alan Eduardo F. Dias]

Is it possible to see the progress of a Backup or Restore?

[Andre Karvelas]

Hi Alan,

There is no GUI for Barman and neither does the backup process show any progress.

I ended up creating a web based dashboard and a bash script to provide me with a means of seeing the progress.

You will need to check the current file size of the live DB and then do a continues compare with the file size in barman as it is backing up.

while awk 'BEGIN { if ('$PER' >= 100) {exit 1} }'; do

         BFS=`du -scb $BKDIR | cut -f1 | head -1`

         PER=`printf %.1f "$((10**3 * $BFS/$DBFS * 100))e-3"`
         echo $PER

done

BKDIR - backup dir on barman (/var/lib/barman/dir_name/base)

BFS - get backup dir size

DBFS - dir size of live DB (/var/lib/postgresql/ver/main/base)

PER - percentage calculation

The full script is more involved for my purposes, but I hope this helps to get your own project started.

Regards

Andre