Estimating and monitoring progress

**gdseas** · 03-15-2018, 12:55 PM

Hello everyone,

Enthusiastic user of ZeXtras here, I am in the middle of moving a production server, upgrading its operating system etc but have some questions.

To be doubly safe, I was thinking of having a ZexTras Backup export and will also be doing the Migration tool.

1) I have started the web-based ZexTras Backup export and has been running overnight (15+hours) but I have no visibility as to how long it has left. Looking at my target dir, nothing is changing but I have not received an email notification of the completion either.
What '/opt/zimbra' directory is it backing up? If I knew that, I could compare between the two and perhaps estimate. Or is there a different way to monitor progress? I am worried that it may have crashed and just waiting...

2) Same goes for the Migration tool, is there a way to estimate size and while it is running monitor it?

Thank you for any pointers!
Greg

**phoenix** · 03-15-2018, 02:00 PM

You should take a look at the command line tools in ZeXtras, you can find details in the wiki (although they're not exactly up-to-date): https://wiki.zextras.com/wiki/ZeXtras_CLI#ZxBackup_CLI

I think you'll need to use the following (when you've started a backup via the cli or in the Web UI):

Code:

zxsuite  backup monitor 
command monitor requires more parameters

Syntax:
   zxsuite backup monitor {operation_uuid} [attr1 value1 [attr2 value2...]]

PARAMETER LIST

NAME                 TYPE      
operation_uuid(M)    Uiid      
operation_host(O)    String    

(M) == mandatory parameter, (O) == optional parameter