How to check backup progress

Question

The client wants to know the progress of a currently running backup.

Environment

OnApp 5.x / 6.x

Answer

On the backup server you can see running backups by `running`

ps aux | grep backup

This will return information on  the backup processes including the backup directory, it will look something like this:

/onapp/backups/i/0/i0dypud8b12tqu

You can check the progress of the backup by running this command:

ll /onapp/backups/i/0/i0dypud8b12tqu -lah

This will return the current size of the backup, you can then compare that to the actual disk size, or better yet the size of a recent backup, to get an idea of how much left the backup task has to go.