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+1. `strace` can be very helpful here, to see if a process is stuck waiting on something or whether it's just zooming along with no output.
by spsesk117 5y ago
+1. `strace` can be very helpful here, to see if a process is stuck waiting on something or whether it's just zooming along with no output.
- dspillett 5y ago`progress` (https://github.com/Xfennec/progress https://github.com/Xfennec/progress) and similar can be very helpful too depending on the backup utilities being used (in my case often involving rsync) even if the processes normally have everything set to quiet so no progress information is automatically forthcoming.
- spsesk117 5y agoWow this looks great, didn't know about this tool. Thanks for the recommendation!