watch backuppc progress From the Backuppc server you can check witch files backuppc is using at the moment with: watch "lsof -n -u backuppc | egrep ' (REG|DIR) ' | egrep -v '( (mem|txt|cwd|rtd) |/LOG)' | awk '{print $9}'" you can also check the running log with: /opt/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_zcat /tank/BackupPC/pc//XferLOG.z Clients: [root@borg ~]# ls /tank/BackupPC/pc adminfs arpes coopsvr delta dns2 gamma ipa ldap lusitano mirgserver omega omegav2 pitpas1 scop-fs stmlab zeta alpha beta darkside dns dozzy hyper kratos ldap2 mail mshop4 omegav1 omegav3 pitpsec spyder tau zorok On the client side you can use: watch "lsof -n | grep rsync | egrep ' (REG|DIR) ' | egrep -v '( (mem|txt|cwd|rtd) |/LOG)' | awk '{print $9}'" Thanks.. very useful. I created a bash function: function watchbupc() { watch -n 10 "lsof -n | grep rsync | egrep ' (REG|DIR) ' | egrep -v '( (mem|txt|cwd|rtd) |/LOG)' | awk '{print $9}'"; } ================================================= perf top -ag