Feature request: nice readable backup summary print

[mrlee14]

personalty would appreciate summary at the and of backup, in a simple readable text format, of what was done so far, the essential details....

[aawsome]

@mrlee14 Can you please give some more details? What kind of information are you missing?

Do you know about rustic backup --json and rustic snapshots --long / rustic snapshots --json?

[mrlee14]

@mrlee14 Can you please give some more details? What kind of information are you missing?

Do you know about rustic backup --json and rustic snapshots --long / rustic snapshots --json?

OK, I see all details and so on.., maybe the option to disable '[INFO]' lines on cli backup cmd and print only 'backing up...' lines, less verbose, its perhaps already configurable?...

[mrlee14]

@mrlee14 Can you please give some more details? What kind of information are you missing?
Do you know about rustic backup --json and rustic snapshots --long / rustic snapshots --json?

OK, I see all details and so on.., maybe the option to disable '[INFO]' lines on cli backup cmd and print only 'backing up...' lines, less verbose, its perhaps already configurable?...

its not truly necessary, as is is already very good...

[aawsome]

@mrlee14 I already heard other users that the output verbosity should be discussed and maybe changed. So far, you can use --level= to set the output verbosity, the default is info. Do you think we should start a discussion about better verbosity and better defaults?

About the summary output: We can easily add a --long option to the backup command which would output the summary like snapshots is currently doing. Would you see this as valuable?

[mrlee14]

@mrlee14 I already heard other users that the output verbosity should be discussed and maybe changed. So far, you can use --level= to set the output verbosity, the default is info. Do you think we should start a discussion about better verbosity and better defaults?

About the summary output: We can easily add a --long option to the backup command which would output the summary like snapshots is currently doing. Would you see this as valuable?

Yes, I think this would be very interesting to have at the bottom of backup, nicely formatted…

[intgr]

Something that I would find extremely useful in output is a summary of what is expanding my repository size. I couldn't care less about some extra megabytes per snapshot, but if I keep accidentally adding stuff to backup that I don't want there, it may eventually get in trouble with my cloud storage quota.

So maybe:

• A summary of new directories/paths added compared to previous backup, if their size exceeds a threshold. E.g. if I have cloned a git repo at ~/git/linux, which adds 6 GB to the Rustic repository, I'd like to know immediately so I can adjust my ignore rules and delete that snapshot. To be useful, this should be the size of the whole directory including all files recursively.

• Similarly, if an existing file has a large amount of changes, it would be nice to know about that (e.g. I have a VM disk image included in backups and I made lots of changes in that VM). Ideally Rustic would summarize it per directory if there are changes to lots of small changes to files in a single directory, but that may require some complicated heuristics.

  • For some use cases, lots of changes is to be expected, so perhaps this should be a "top 5" or "top 10" list, and a reasonable size threshold as well.