When you issue ZFS commands that initiate background tasks to run on the data such as sending, receiving, scrubbing, or resilvering data, you can monitor the status and progress of these tasks in real time. You can specify the frequency rate in which information is displayed. You can also determine for how long the monitoring should run.
To monitor pool operations, you use the zpool monitor command. Depending on which options you use, the command provides the following information about the task. The information is provided for each individual pool.
Start time.
Current amount of data.
Timestamp, if appropriate on a per feature basis.
Amount of data at start of the task, if appropriate.
You can display information about tasks on an individual pool or on all existing pools on the system.
Use the zpool monitor command as follows:
zpool monitor -t provider [-T d|u] [pool] [interval [count]]
Specifies one of the following providers about which the task information is displayed. For provider, you can specify one of the following:
send
receive or recv
scrub
resilver
Specifies the time stamp and its display format. To display in standard date format, specify d. To display a printed representation of the internal representation of time, specify u. For more information about these display formats, see the date(1) and the time(2) man pages.
Rate, in seconds, at which the displayed information is updated.
Number of times the command displays task-related information within the specified interval.
If count is specified, then the command updates the information for as many times as specified by count before exiting. If count is not specified, then the information is updated continuously until you press Ctrl-C.
The command output arranges the information according to specific fields:
Amount of data that has been processed so far since the zpool monitor command was issued.
Additional information depending on the specified provider, such as the current item being processed, or the current state of the task.
Percentage of data that has been processed.
Pool from which the information is retrieved.
Task that is providing the information.
Units per second, usually bytes but dependent on the unit that the provider uses.
Time the provider started on the displayed task.
Distinguishes whole operations. The TAG value is unique at any one time but values can reused in subsequent operations. For example, two simultaneous send operations would have different TAG values even if both tasks operate on the same dataset.
Relative time that a specific task will be completed.
Time the monitored data snapshot is taken.
Estimate of total amount of data to be processed.
The zfs send command creates a stream representation of a snapshot. The following example shows how to obtain information about this task. The information would be updated two times in a 5-second interval.
# zpool monitor -t send 5 2 POOL PROVIDER PCTDONE TOTAL SPEED TIMELEFT OTHER poolA send 41.7 10.0G 5.93M 16m49s poolA/fs:1/team3@all poolB send 53.9 10.0G 7.71M 10m13s poolB/fs1/team3@all poolC send 97.9 10.0G 14.4M 14s poolC/fs1/team1@all poolA send 43.5 10.0G 6.17M 15m40s poolA/fs:1/team3@all poolB send 55.8 10.0G 7.95M 9m30s poolB/fs1/team3@all poolC send 99.2 10.0G 14.5M 5s poolC/fs1/team1@allExample 40 Monitoring the Reception of a Stream
This example shows how to monitor the status and progress of a receive operation. Without a designated count, the information is continuously updated every 5 seconds. The monitoring ends when the administrator presses Ctrl-C.
# zpool monitor -t recv 5 pool provider pctdone total speed timeleft other poolA receive 34.0 12.0G 6.01M 22m31s poolA/backup_all/fs2 poolA receive 68.0 6.01G 6.01M 5m28s poolA/backup_fs:1 poolB receive 20.6 10.0G 3.04M 44m39s poolB/backup_all/fs2 poolB receive 100.0 6.01G 9.48M 1s poolB/backup_fs1 poolB receive 16.7 12.0G 4.16M 41m04s poolB/pA-bkup/fs2 poolC receive 26.2 10.0G 3.98M 31m41s poolC/backup_all/fs2 ^CExample 41 Monitoring a Resilvering Operation
This example shows how to check the status of a resilvering operation on all the three ZFS pools on the system.
# zpool monitor -t resilver 5 4 pool provider pctdone total speed timeleft other poolA resilver 10.7 12.0G 37.7M 4m50s (2/2) poolB resilver 7.1 10.0G 31.5M 5m02s (2/2) poolC resilver 1.8 10.0G 42.9M 3m54s (2/2) poolA resilver 13.9 12.0G 38.0M 4m38s (2/2) poolB resilver 9.0 10.0G 30.4M 5m07s (2/2) poolC resilver 5.3 10.0G 41.7M 3m52s (2/2) poolA resilver 14.7 12.0G 36.1M 4m50s (2/2) poolB resilver 10.8 10.0G 29.2M 5m12s (2/2) poolC resilver 7.2 10.0G 41.0M 3m51s (2/2) poolA resilver 14.7 12.0G 32.8M 5m19s (2/2) poolB resilver 10.8 10.0G 29.6M 5m08s (2/2) poolC resilver 7.2 10.0G 40.7M 3m53s (2/2)Example 42 Monitoring a Scrubbing Operation
This example shows how to monitor the progress of a scrubbing operation on poolB.
# zpool monitor -t scrub 5 poolB pool provider pctdone total speed timeleft poolB scrub 16.3 14.0G 35.3M 5m39s poolB scrub 16.4 14.0G 33.2M 6m00s poolB scrub 16.5 14.0G 31.1M 6m25s poolB scrub 16.5 14.0G 29.3M 6m48s ^C