check tar progress???

UprLftCstr · 06-12-2014, 12:27 PM

I'm creating a tar prior to rebuilding a RAID array. I have run separate tar commands for each of 5 'high' level directories on the array. The largest directory is > 1TB. The tar command has been running for over a week (in background). Is there a way to determine how much of the directory has been tarred or how much remains without interrupting the command?

cmj141 · 06-12-2014, 12:38 PM

metaschima · 06-12-2014, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by cmj141

Yes

You better post an answer soon or I'm reporting your post.

metaschima · 06-12-2014, 01:28 PM

Next time you should use 'pv' or 'bar' to monitor the progress. You can't do that now, because it is running.

One thing you can try is use 'ps' to find the process id and then go into '/proc/process_id/fd' where process_id is the process id, and you can check the various file descriptors there 0 is stdin, 1 is stdout, 2 is stderr. Try using tail on one of these, but it depends how you ran tar as to what info you can get.