Currently it looks like TrueCloud Backup tasks don’t show progress when they are clicked on (ie clicking the “Running” link on the task page). What I’m looking for is something similar to what the cloud sync tasks do where they show the number of files transferred and the number of total files (with a progress bar).
What currently happens is that I see a “Starting” progress, however it’s during this time that all the data seems to be transferred. At the very end is a “Cleaning Up” status which remains until I dismiss it (even though the status of the task changes to “Success”)
Here is what I’m seeing in my log. The point at the end of the log simply hangs until the transfer is complete with no additional progress:
open repository
lock repository
no parent snapshot found, will read all files
load index files
start scan on [/mnt/boats/house]
start backup on [/mnt/boats/house]
scan finished in 0.673s: 131 files, 20.085 GiB
The backing technology is restic – it has a live status capability.
It does require extra scanning of the data and will slow down the backup.
If you really need that, i’d suggest a Feature Request.
Marking this as a feature request. I think this is a necessary feature due to the fact that it appears to transfer a massive additional amount of data to the server than the actual dataset contains (as a percentage of the dataset size). I ran into this issue as well when working with the Cloud Sync tasks, however I think TrueCloud Backups will behave differently since it isn’t transferring the literal files, but instead “blobs”.
Regardless, if I’m transferring 2TB of data, which will take weeks to complete, I want to have some indication of where it is in the process.
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I have also just started using TrueCloud backups and would love this feature. The GUI shows 0% for the whole backup process, and it would be awesome to know how long is left
