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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use lib "/usr/share/BackupPC/lib";
+use BackupPC::Lib;
+use BackupPC::CGI::Lib;
+use POSIX;
+use JSON;
+use Getopt::Long;
+use Statistics::Descriptive;
+use Data::Dumper;
+
+my $host   = undef;
+my $entity = undef;
+my $pretty = 0;
+
+GetOptions(
+  "host=s"   => \$host,
+  "entity=s" => \$entity,
+  "pretty"   => \$pretty
+);
+
+# We need to switch to backuppc UID/GID
+my $uid = getuid();
+my $gid = getgid();
+my (undef,undef,$bkpuid,$bkpgid) = getpwnam('backuppc');
+setuid($bkpuid) if ($uid ne $bkpuid);
+setgid($bkpgid) if ($gid ne $bkpgid);
+
+my $bpc = BackupPC::Lib->new();
+my $mainConf = $bpc->ConfigDataRead();
+my $json = {};
+
+if ( $host ) {
+  my $hostConf = $bpc->ConfigDataRead($host);
+  my $conf = { %$mainConf, %$hostConf };
+  my $age = -1;
+  $json = {
+    bkp             => 0,
+    full_size       => 0,
+    errors          => 0,
+    new_size        => 0,
+    new_size_avg    => 0,
+    new_size_median => 0,
+    new_size_q1     => 0,
+    new_size_q3     => 0,
+    duration        => 0,
+    comp_ratio      => 0
+  };
+
+  my $lastXferErrors        = 0;
+  my $maxErrors             = 0;
+  my $new_size_of_last_full = 0;
+  my @bpc_info              = $bpc->BackupInfoRead($host);
+  my $sizes                 = new Statistics::Descriptive::Full;
+
+  if ( scalar( @bpc_info ) ){
+    foreach my $backup ( @bpc_info ) {
+      # Skip partial or active backups
+      next if ( $backup->{type} !~ m/^full|incr$/ );
+      if ( $backup->{type} eq "full" ) {
+        $json->{full_size} = $backup->{size};
+        $new_size_of_last_full = $backup->{sizeNew};
+      }
+      # Push all the sizes in our data set to compute avg sizes
+      # Exclude backup N°0 as it'll always have much more new data than normal backups
+      $sizes->add_data($backup->{sizeNew}) unless ( $backup->{num} == 0 );
+      $json->{bkp}++;
+    }
+
+    # Ignore the last backup if it's not full or incr (which means it's either partial or active)
+    my $i = ( $bpc_info[-1]->{type} =~ m/^full|incr$/ ) ? -1 : -2;
+
+    $json->{errors}      = $bpc_info[$i]->{xferErrs};
+    $json->{new_size}    = $bpc_info[$i]->{sizeNew};
+    $json->{duration}    = $bpc_info[$i]->{endTime} - $bpc_info[$i]->{startTime};
+    $json->{type}        = $bpc_info[$i]->{type};
+    $json->{comp_ratio}  = ( $bpc_info[$i]->{sizeNew} > 0 ) ?
+        sprintf( "%.2f", 100 - ( $bpc_info[$i]->{sizeNewComp} * 100 / $bpc_info[$i]->{sizeNew} ) )
+          :
+        0;
+
+    $json->{new_size_avg}    = int $sizes->mean;
+    $json->{new_size_median} = int $sizes->median;
+    # Some old versions of Statistics::Descriptive (eg, on el5) do not support quantile
+    $json->{new_size_q1}     = eval { int $sizes->quantile(1) } || 0;
+    $json->{new_size_q3}     = eval { int $sizes->quantile(3) } || 0;
+    $json->{enabled}         = ( $conf->{BackupsDisable} > 0 ) ? 0 : 1;
+    $json->{total_size}      = $sizes->sum + $json->{full_size} - 2 * $new_size_of_last_full;
+    $json->{age}             = time - $bpc_info[$i]->{startTime};
+
+    $json->{max_errors} = $conf->{MaxXferError} || 0;
+  }
+} elsif ( $entity ) {
+
+  $json = {
+    perf  => 0,
+    size  => 0,
+    hosts => 0,
+    bkp   => 0,
+    ratio => 0
+  };
+
+  my $total_new  = 0;
+  my $total_comp = 0;
+
+  foreach my $host ( keys %{ $bpc->HostInfoRead } ) {
+    next unless $host =~ m/^(vm_)?\Q$entity\E_.*/;
+    my $full_size;
+
+    $json->{hosts}++;
+
+    my $hostConf = $bpc->ConfigDataRead($host);
+    my $conf     = { %$mainConf, %$hostConf };
+    my $freq     = ( $conf->{FullPeriod} > $conf->{IncrPeriod} ) ? $conf->{IncrPeriod} : $conf->{FullPeriod};
+    my $duration = 0;
+    my $bkp_num  = 0;
+    my $new_size_of_last_full = 0;
+
+    foreach my $backup ( $bpc->BackupInfoRead( $host ) ) {
+      next if ( $backup->{type} !~ m/^full|incr$/ );
+
+      # Save the total size of the last full backup
+      if ( $backup->{type} eq 'full' ) {
+        $full_size             = $backup->{size};
+        $new_size_of_last_full = $backup->{sizeNew};
+      }
+
+      $json->{size} += $backup->{sizeNew};
+      $total_new    += $backup->{sizeNew};
+      $total_comp   += $backup->{sizeNewComp};
+      $duration     += $backup->{endTime} - $backup->{startTime};
+      $bkp_num++;
+      $json->{bkp}++;
+    }
+    # Compute the average cost as the number of hours per day spent
+    # to backup this host
+    $json->{perf} += ( $bkp_num > 0 ) ? $duration / ( 3600 * $bkp_num * $freq ) : 0;
+
+    # $json->{size} represent the total size used by this host.
+    # But we want to substract the new size of the last full, as for this one we
+    # do not count sizeNew but size. As we've already added sizeNew we need to substract it 2 times
+    $json->{size} += $full_size - 2 * $new_size_of_last_full;
+  }
+  $json->{ratio} = ( $total_new > 0 ) ? 100 - ( $total_comp * 100 / $total_new ) : 0;
+
+  # Round some values
+  foreach my $key ( qw(ratio perf) ) {
+    $json->{$key} = sprintf( "%.2f", $json->{$key} );
+  }
+
+} else {
+  print<<"EOF";
+
+Usage: $0 --host=<host> or --entity=<entity>
+
+EOF
+}
+
+print to_json( $json, { pretty => $pretty } );
+exit(0);