diff --git a/backfiller/backfiller/main.py b/backfiller/backfiller/main.py
index fe16cec..be69d13 100644
--- a/backfiller/backfiller/main.py
+++ b/backfiller/backfiller/main.py
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ def backfill(base_dir, node, stream, variants, hours, segment_order='random', re
 	recent_cutoff -- Skip backfilling segments younger than this number of
 		seconds to prioritise letting the downloader grab these segments."""
 
-	logging.info('Starting backfilling from {}'.format(node))
+	#logging.info('Starting backfilling from {}'.format(node))
 
 	for variant in variants:
 
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ def backfill(base_dir, node, stream, variants, hours, segment_order='random', re
 				get_remote_segment(base_dir, node, stream, variant, hour, missing_segment)
 			logging.info('{} segments in {}/{}/{} backfilled'.format(len(missing_segments), stream, variant, hour))
 
-	logging.info('Finished backfilling from {}'.format(node))
+	#logging.info('Finished backfilling from {}'.format(node))
 
 class BackfillerManager(object):
 	"""Manages BackfillerWorkers to backfill from a pool of nodes.
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ class BackfillerManager(object):
 		self.variants = variants
 		self.nodes = nodes
 		self.stopping = gevent.event.Event()
+		self.logger = self.logger = logging.getLogger("BackfillerManager({})".format(stream))
 		self.workers = {} # {node url: worker}
 
 
@@ -271,7 +272,7 @@ class BackfillerManager(object):
 			if self.nodes is None:
 				new_nodes = set(get_nodes())
 			else:
-				new_nodes = self.nodes
+				new_nodes = set(self.nodes)
 			exisiting_nodes = set(self.workers.keys())
 
 			to_start = new_nodes - exisiting_nodes
@@ -336,8 +337,8 @@ class BackfillerWorker(object):
 			del self.manager.workers[self.node]
 
 	def _run(self):
-		last_small_backfill = datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedetla(-1)
-		last_large_backfill = datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedetla(-1)
+		last_small_backfill = datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(-1)
+		last_large_backfill = datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(-1)
 		large_hours = []
 
 		while not self.stopping.is_set():
@@ -345,7 +346,9 @@ class BackfillerWorker(object):
 			now = datetime.datetime.now()
 
 			if now - last_small_backfill > datetime.timedelta(minutes=self.SMALL_INTERVAL):
+				self.logger.info('Starting backfilling last 3 hours')
 				backfill(self.base_dir, self.node, self.stream, self.variants, last_hours(), stopping=self.stopping)
+				self.logger.info('Finished backfilling last 3 hours')
 				last_small_backfill = now
 
 			elif now - last_large_backfill > datetime.timedelta(minutes=self.LARGE_INTERVAL) or len(large_hours):
@@ -355,7 +358,9 @@ class BackfillerWorker(object):
 
 				this_hour = large_hours[-1:]
 				large_hours = large_hours[:-1]
+				self.logger.info('Starting full backfill hour: {}'.format(this_hour[0]))
 				backfill(self.base_dir, self.node, self.stream, self.variants, this_hour, stopping=self.stopping)
+				self.logger.info('Finished full backfill hour: {}'.format(this_hour[0]))
 			else:	
 				self.stopping.wait(common.jitter(self.WAIT_INTERVAL))