Mover % bar or information

[zzgus]

Ussually mover is run by schedule but some times we run mover manually.

 

When we run it manually it would be nice to know how long will take mover to copy all the files.

 

I feel safe not working with files while mover is running. (sure is paranoia but I feel safe)

 

Would it be possible to add some kind of % bar showing information about the mover process?

At least I will know how long will it take.

 

Thankyou

Gus

 

[Mortumus]

I like this idea. At the moment we are in the dark a little as to what's happening with the mover.

I guess a percent complete might be harder if you are also writing data to the cache while the mover is working, but I guess it can adjust.

[RobJ]

The Mover is not a program though, it's just a script that runs a series of rsync commands.  Perhaps there's an rsync option to show more progress info?

[jedimstr]

As an alternative if you just want to see what the mover is doing without % and know exactly when complete, you can hit the Log button in the navigation while Mover is running. That shows you exactly what it's doing and when done.

[zzgus]

As an alternative if you just want to see what the mover is doing without % and know exactly when complete, you can hit the Log button in the navigation while Mover is running. That shows you exactly what it's doing and when done.

 

Thankyou !!!

Gus

[cruzr]

Edit the mover script and add the

--progress 

option to each rsync command, then display the output in the webGUI by tailing a file? Then you can see specifically which file it's moving, how fast, and ETA to completion. Would be better detail than a progress bar and easier than trying to make a progress bar around each rsync command.

[je82]

signed, would love to see a nice progressbar on the main/dashboard letting me know of the movers progress, if possible.

keep up the good work guys!

[golli53]

+1 think this is a great idea. In addition to it being generally useful, sometimes I need to manually cancel Mover because it's slowing down my array, but if it's almost done, would prefer not to cancel.

[Greyberry]

i would also like to see the progress of the mover

[DavidIrwin]

I would really apprecaite seeing some form of progress on the Mover to show how long it is likely to run or a count of files to be moved or something.

[cinereus]

On 11/7/2016 at 4:52 AM, jedimstr said:

As an alternative if you just want to see what the mover is doing without % and know exactly when complete, you can hit the Log button in the navigation while Mover is running. That shows you exactly what it's doing and when done.

A couple of threads have mentioned this but there's no information about mover displayed in the log other than the start of the script.

[tjb_altf4]

11 minutes ago, cinereus said:

A couple of threads have mentioned this but there's no information about mover displayed in the log other than the start of the script.

I think its disabled by default these days, but you can enable it here:

Scheduler > Mover Settings > Mover Logging > Enabled

[cinereus]

2 hours ago, tjb_altf4 said:

I think its disabled by default these days, but you can enable it here:

Scheduler > Mover Settings > Mover Logging > Enabled

I have it enabled but nothing is showing in System Log.

[Squid]

Either mover is not running, or it was running when you enabled it.  The setting doesn't take effect until mover starts again

[PigNib]

+1 on wanting a high-level progress bar (ideally with a amount of GB left & transfer rate and estimated minutes to completion)

[PigNib]

Also wanted to add this as it helped for my situation although i wouldn't consider it an acceptable workaround.

I decided to move my movie collection from my array of two spinning disks to my cache pool of two SSDs.

I changed the shares>cache setting from Yes to Prefer for the movies share then invoked the mover.

 

If you then click on the shares>view button on the far right side of the shame name you can sort by location and watch the progress of the folders being move from "Disk1 " to "Disk1, Cache" then finally to "Cache".

Obviously your names for the array and cache may differ.

 

Unfortunately this doesn't auto-refresh but hitting the refresh hotkey/button on your browser (or at least with firefox) does update the current status.

Edited May 14, 2020 by PigNib

[cinereus]

Could people not do exactly what the mover does with unBALANCE instead?

[trurl]

6 minutes ago, cinereus said:

Could people not do exactly what the mover does with unBALANCE instead?

I suppose you could move things with unBALANCE if you wanted to, but there are other things mover does related to when and what it moves. Mover runs on schedule without you having to initiate it, and mover decides what to move where based on the settings of each user share.

[vonpelz]

+1. Just like parity check, it'd be nice to see mover speed/progress/ETA as well as errors. Recently I had files in cache that would not move to the array due to checksum errors that was apparent from the log. After running a scrub on the cache I was able to identify which files were corrupted.

[RobertP]

I also would like to see some type of progress indication for Mover.  Either a bar, or as % complete, or an ESTIMATE TIME TO COMPLETE.

[Br0d0]

+1 for Mover progress indicator please :)

[Sw337s]

I came across this searching for a solution to the mystery of mover.  I thought I could look at iotop but everything is hidden under the veil of shfs

 

+1 to some way of seeing mover progress.  Thanks!

 

P.S. The previous suggestions indicate unBALANCE is used like mover? Are people ignoring the warning "unBALANCE needs exclusive access to disks, so disable mover and/or any dockers that write to disks, before running it.". mover is great as is balances the cache/array while everything is running. I assume unBALANCE can be used for this??

Edited October 3, 2020 by Sw337s
added unBALANCE question.

[trurl]

unBALANCE is about disks, mover is about user shares.

 

unBALANCE moves from specified disks in the array to other specified disks in the array.

 

Mover moves user share files from cache to array or array to cache based entirely on the settings of each user share. Each user share's settings controls which disk the files wind up on.

[maetthew]

Would just like to add +1 to this feature request. Would be very handy to have

[McFex]

+1 from me.

This would be awesome and very helpful for working with shares you download to but because you also need them to be present in PLEX for example and have them on the arrey to be safe and them being bigger in size than 1 TB (meaning bigger than your cache drive) and additionally you want to work with TinyMediaManager on them you set those shares to "Use cache: Yes". A progress bar would be VERY helpful in this usecase!

 

Any news on that?

Will we get this in 6.9?