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improve bacula job timeing queries 

give an example of a job for *all* fulls, and also include a
human-readable size.
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howto/backup.md

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But then you still have to compute all those duration times

(end-start) in your head, that's annoying. To workaround that problem,

you can talk directly with the PostgreSQL database:

you can talk directly with the PostgreSQL database. The magic query

is:



    SELECT level, jobstatus, starttime, endtime,

           (CASE WHEN endtime IS NULL THEN NOW()

           ELSE endtime END)-starttime AS duration,

           jobfiles, pg_size_pretty(jobbytes)

           FROM job

           WHERE name='colchicifolium.torproject.org'

           ORDER by starttime;



Here's an example:



    root@bacula-director-01:~# sudo -u postgres psql bacula

    could not change directory to "/root": Permission denied

    psql (11.14 (Debian 11.14-0+deb10u1))

    Type "help" for help.



    bacula=# SELECT level, jobstatus, starttime, endtime, (CASE WHEN endtime IS NULL THEN NOW() ELSE endtime END)-starttime AS duration, jobfiles, jobbytes FROM job WHERE name='colchicifolium.torproject.org' ORDER by starttime;

    bacula=# SELECT level, jobstatus, starttime, endtime, (CASE WHEN endtime IS NULL THEN NOW() ELSE endtime END)-starttime AS duration, jobfiles, pg_size_pretty(jobbytes) FROM job WHERE name='colchicifolium.torproject.org' ORDER by starttime;

    level | jobstatus |      starttime      |       endtime       |       duration        | jobfiles |   jobbytes   

    -------+-----------+---------------------+---------------------+-----------------------+----------+--------------

     I     | f         | 2015-12-03 09:57:02 | 2015-12-03 09:57:02 | 00:00:00              |        0 |            0
@@ -610,6 +621,17 @@ you can talk directly with the PostgreSQL database: 
     D     | R         | 2022-02-27 18:37:53 |                     | 4 days 03:04:58.45685 |        0 |            0

    (39 rows)



Here's another query showing the last 25 "Full" jobs regardless of the host:



    SELECT name, jobstatus, starttime, endtime,

           (CASE WHEN endtime IS NULL THEN NOW()

           ELSE endtime END)-starttime AS duration,

           jobfiles, pg_size_pretty(jobbytes)

           FROM job

           WHERE level='F'

           ORDER by starttime DESC

           LIMIT 25;



## Listing files from backups



To see which files are in a given host, you can use: