On S3, index files and the tree segments read back when a snapshot is
written are fetched 16 at a time through the storage's S3 client
(IBackend::getRanges(), getMany()). Blobs that follow each other in a pack
are read as one range on every location. The snapshot is written in a step
of its own and the run shows "commit" meanwhile. On a 1 TB production
repository the check went from about 4 hours to 3.5 minutes.
backup:status and the web interface list the runs of the last 7 days,
running ones and at least the newest 5; --all / "Show older runs" list
all. Durations of a day or more show the days.
Each 30-second step opened the location again and read its list of
index files. Over SMB that cost a request per file, so on a large
repository opening took longer than the step: each step stored one
4 MiB pack and the list grew further. A first backup of nc01 to a
Storage Box over SMB managed 12 GiB in 35 hours.
occ backup:run and system cron now keep the repository open for the
whole run (reopened when another process took a step or the location
was edited), opening no longer counts towards the step's time, and
SMB folders are listed in one request.
occ backup:cancel stops a running backup: no new step starts and the
step in progress finishes first. A run of an earlier version, which
does not hold back its next step, is marked cancelled after two
minutes unless it is recording its snapshot.
With few packs a request per pack is fewer requests than 256 listings. On
FTP every listing takes a data connection; the FTP server of the integration
tests has ten passive ports, and 256 listings in a row slowed it down until a
read failed ("Not found: snapshots/...").
A Hetzner Storage Box drops an SFTP connection that carried a lot of data
and then stayed quiet for a few minutes; files_external keeps using the dead
client, on which every file looks missing. StorageBackend now checks the
connection after a minute without requests, and replaces a connection that
is dead after a failed request (once per request; put, move and delete are
not repeated). SftpReadStream closes a connection it left in an unknown state.
The verify cache refresh took more than 6 minutes on PostgreSQL for 27,547
packs, one autocommitted insert per pack: putMany()/replaceAll() write in one
transaction. After a verify the cache holds the index files as they are, so a
blob in two packs stays cached for both.
Restores and deep verifies requested every blob separately: a new file handle and a seek on
the location each time. They read the blobs of a snapshot in the order they were written, so
the stream of the pack read last now stays open and is read on; a jump backwards, to another
pack, or more than 8 MiB ahead opens the pack again at the offset, as before. On a Hetzner
Storage Box over SMB, restoring 86 MB in 202 files went from 0.78 MB/s to 4.2 MB/s.
A run only showed "running (files)", which says nothing during a backup
of a terabyte. The files phase now records an expected size on its first
step: the previous snapshot's size, or for a first backup the users'
files, versions and trash from Nextcloud's file cache (approximate, shown
with a ~). The web interface and occ backup:status show the share of it
done so far, including a large file that is still being read; it stays
below 100% until the run finishes.
A changed password or host name could only be handled by adding a new
location, which starts an empty repository and, with a retention lock at
the provider, keeps the old one billed. Edit now changes a location in
place (web interface and occ backup:target:edit). The settings are only
saved when they lead to the same repository; a failed connection and a
missing repository give separate errors, and the folder is not created
while checking. Stored passwords are never sent to the browser: an empty
password field keeps the stored value.
An unreadable blob may still be a truncated pack, so don't rule out damage
in the verify message; README: Hetzner needs WebDAV/SMB and external
reachability enabled for the sub-account.
dillard