borg create: progress stuck at "Initializing cache transaction: Reading files"

[sebastianhaberey]

Hi, I'm working on a frontend for borg and I like that it's already sending meaningful log messages (with --progress --log-json) that I can simply forward to the user.

The one thing I'd like to ask is: when using borg create, the progress messages kind of stop at "Initializing cache transaction: Reading files", so this will be shown for an hour if it's an hour-long upload to the repo.

For the user it's a bit misleading, so I wish there was another message after that like "Transferring data to repository" or something along those lines.

Or maybe there's some message that I could re-interpret to let the user know that everything is going as planned?

[ThomasWaldmann]

We are talking about borg 1.x, right?

The cache is local and reading its files shouldn't take that long.

[sebastianhaberey]

Yes, Borg 1.4. So these are the messages (borg create):

{"original_size": 0, "compressed_size": 0, "deduplicated_size": 0, "nfiles": 0, "path": "Users/user/Projects/easyborg/tests/resources/testdata", "time": 1765053493.1253152, "type": "archive_progress", "finished": false}
{"message": "Initializing cache transaction: Reading config", "operation": 1, "msgid": "cache.begin_transaction", "type": "progress_message", "finished": false, "time": 1765053493.125608}
{"message": "Initializing cache transaction: Reading chunks", "operation": 1, "msgid": "cache.begin_transaction", "type": "progress_message", "finished": false, "time": 1765053493.125806}
{"message": "Initializing cache transaction: Reading files", "operation": 1, "msgid": "cache.begin_transaction", "type": "progress_message", "finished": false, "time": 1765053493.125976}
{"operation": 1, "msgid": "cache.begin_transaction", "type": "progress_message", "finished": true, "time": 1765053493.126283}
{"time": 1765053493.126785, "type": "archive_progress", "finished": true}
{"message": "Saving files cache", "operation": 2, "msgid": "cache.commit", "type": "progress_message", "finished": false, "time": 1765053493.145952}
{"message": "Saving chunks cache", "operation": 2, "msgid": "cache.commit", "type": "progress_message", "finished": false, "time": 1765053493.1461031}
{"message": "Saving cache config", "operation": 2, "msgid": "cache.commit", "type": "progress_message", "finished": false, "time": 1765053493.1462212}
{"operation": 2, "msgid": "cache.commit", "type": "progress_message", "finished": true, "time": 1765053493.146899}

Right now, I'm just displaying the "message" texts. Would you propose that I parse the "operation" message and display a text of my own?

[ThomasWaldmann]

No, the message should be enough.

[sebastianhaberey]

Oh sorry I just saw there are "path" messages for each file that I could use!