Ah. ok, so looks like there is no progress or support --verbose on restore, and doesn’t look like there’s any plans to do it soon, as it’s considered low priority.
Does anybody have any bash or zsh trickery they can recommend that would give some semblance of “this is what’s happening” during a large restore? I’m using Google drive as a backend with rclone.
I would also be very glad if some progress indicator would arrive some day. Or at least verbosity.
I don’t expect any trick would do this.
What I do during restore is sweating, praying, smoking one cigarette after the other and watching ‘df’ output in another console to see if data is still written…
The restore command shows a progress bar similar to the backup command, starting from restic 0.16.0. It is shown if the output is a terminal or you’ve passed the --json option.
Note that the progress bar feature is only available in restic versions 0.14.0 and later. If you are using an older version of restic, you will not be able to see a progress bar during restores.
In that case you should update restic to a version that actually implements the restore progress bar (aka. at least restic 0.16.0).
Well, it’s giving you an answer as it was told too. Nobody said anything about the answer being correct, it just has to seem correct at first glance xD . (There is no --progress option)