sorry newbe :| where do i find log files / feed back to confirm doing what i expect about acts HOT 13 CLOSED

Just to be clear, do you see the basic logging where it shows you what directory it's backing up? But you'd like logging for each file that's backed up, so you can confirm everything you expect is being saved properly?

There are two solutions:

1. Add -v to your tarsnap options, so tarsnap will print the name of each file it saves
2. Manually read the list of files in one of the backups acts makes, using a command like tar tf <backupname> which will list the files within the backup

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that is all the information i'm seeing, i can see network traffic for the tarsnap service so i know it is running. but been a number of hours and wanting an estimation of how long will take.

1 ) missed oportunity to -v as already working,
2) how do i go about this? where are the tar files?

see screenshot of what i'm seeing

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You can't change the acts options while it's running, but you could cancel the run and start it again, if you wanted.

The tar files are stored in the tarsnap cloud, you can list all tarsnap archives with tarsnap --list-archives

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Also, note that you can't pass arguments to acts directly (i see you tried to run acts --dry-run, which will have no effect). You should put these argument in your acts.conf file (see the README for more info).

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yer i worked out that didn't do anything told you i was a newbie :(
i've turned on debug level feed back and set tarsnap="tarsnap -v" in config

and still this is all I'm seeing, is that normal? or should the -v option be providing more feed back?

thank you again for your help so appreciated.

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p.s. thats after i stopped it and restarted it with the new config.

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Try adding -v to tarsnapbackupoptions instead

On Thu, 7 Jul 2016, 1:41 PM mrhut10 [email protected] wrote:

yer i worked out that didn't do anything told you i was a newbie :(
i've turned on debug level feed back and set tarsnap="tarsnap -v" in config

and still this is all I'm seeing, is that normal? or should the -v option
be providing more feed back?

[image: acts progress feedback2]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/20330237/16641894/75d357a4-4448-11e6-8b4f-13f090c1329a.PNG

thank you again for your help so appreciated.

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I did that and added dry run, but still only seeing details from your script,
is there a way to raise feedback that tarsnap is providing?

thats what i'm seeing, and sorry if i'm missing the point :(

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well, it looks like a few backups have completed now, so it might be easiest to inspect the tarsnap archive now, like tarsnap -tf DESKTOP-94947K0-monthly-2016-07-07_03:53:22-cygdrivevwork

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looks like i may have fixed it,

within your script i put I added a "| tee progress.txt"
so when i open that file i can see it traversing through file system and feel confident it is working.

thank you again :)

this is the line that i've added the " | tee progress.txt"

if ! output="$($tarsnap -c -f "$archivename" -C / $tarsnapbackupoptions "$dir" 2>&1 | tee progress.txt)" ; then

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Ah, I forgot how acts works. You're right, even adding -v wouldn't have
shown the status, because it's hidden deliberately. Your solution is
alright, although be careful if you ever update acts because your change
will be lost.

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looks like i may have fixed it,

within your script i put I added a "| tee progress.txt"
so when i open that file i can see it traversing through file system and
feel confident it is working.

thank you again :)

this is the line that i've added the " | tee progress.txt"

if ! output="$($tarsnap -c -f "$archivename" -C / $tarsnapbackupoptions
"$dir" 2>&1 | tee progress.txt)" ; then

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is awesome as i know there are around 3000 files, and currently up to 2054 lines in file so i'm around 60% ish through the files structure

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thank you again, i'll close off issue.
love your work :) thank you for creating.

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