There are two methods to help understand the current state of the command-line client, and to watch it's activity.
Status
Logs
Status
To view the status of the command-line client, use the status command:
jotta-cli status
This will display the following information:
$ jotta-cli status
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Account : test-account
Usage : 1.57TB / 2.0TB
Backups :
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Path : /Users/test/Desktop
Files : 8536 (8.48GiB)
Status : Up to date - Thu Jun 3 13:42:56
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OK
To see detail about errors (if there are any files that couldn't be backed up), use jotta-cli status -v .
Logs
The command-line client will write logs to the jotta-cli install directory. You can see its location with jotta-cli logfile. It can be moved via the config file - see how to do that here.
You can tail the logs of a running jottad process by using the tail command:
jotta-cli tail
Press ctrl-c to exit the command.