[Borgbackup] 'borg list' on bigger repo runs for days.

David Krause krause at biochem2.uni-frankfurt.de
Wed Jul 8 04:45:02 EDT 2020


Noticed something else:

When i launch the borg list with

borg list --last 1 -p /path/to/repo

i see that it stuck at:

Replaying segments 0%

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kind regards

David Krause
IT
Institute of Biochemistry II

Gustav Embden-Zentrum der Biochemie
Goethe University Frankfurt - Medical Faculty

University Hospital - Building 75
Theodor-Stern-Kai 7
60590 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

+49 (0)69 6301 84971 (Phone)
+49 (0)69 6301 84975 (Fax)
krause at biochem2.uni-frankfurt.de

Am 08.07.2020 um 10:14 schrieb David Krause:
>
> Dear List,
>
>
> We daily backup a storage of about 20tb into a repository which now 
> has about 1000tb worth of backup thanks to deduplication.
> Everything was fine all the time, we could restore files from the 
> backup it was okayish fast (borg list on this repo took a few minutes),
> but a few days ago, we again lost a file from the storage and needed 
> to restore it from the backup.
>
> During this time, a borg prune was running. I've/canceled it/ (by 
> sending kill to the process).
> Now the `borg list` took about 2 full days, and still not finished.
> When i check with iotop i see the python/borg process with 40mb/s 
> (~100% of this storage capabilities) running all the time.
>
> Any idea what i could do?
> Do you have any explanation why this takes so long?
> Or any tip to fasten this up when this is normal behavior?
>
> This is ubuntu's borg 1.1.5
>
>
> -- 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kind regards
>
> David Krause
> IT
> Institute of Biochemistry II
>
> Gustav Embden-Zentrum der Biochemie
> Goethe University Frankfurt - Medical Faculty
>
> University Hospital - Building 75
> Theodor-Stern-Kai 7
> 60590 Frankfurt am Main
> Germany
>
> +49 (0)69 6301 84971 (Phone)
> +49 (0)69 6301 84975 (Fax)
> krause at biochem2.uni-frankfurt.de
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