Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity failing during initial full backup over SSH/SCP

[Kevin Elliott]

Adam Wendt wrote:
> One idea would be to do a local backup and then scp the files over to
> the remote server, that way you can easily just continue with the ones
> left over if it fails. Now of course this requires you have enough
> space to store the backup on your local server initially.

Adam,

Thank you for the response, this is helpful. I've seen this response 
once before, but I noticed there was concern about the way the signing 
works when you make a local backup, and then scp/rsync it over to a 
remote host as a bootstrap, and then doing incrementals the normal way.

Should I make my backup process always backup locally to preserve proper 
local signage, and always rsync over ssh the local copy to my remote 
storage?

Can you provide an example script with options to duplicity to support this?

Thanks in advance,
Kevin

> Adam Wendt
>
> On 7/18/07, Kevin Elliott <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I've been using Duplicity for small backups for several months, and find
> > it to be an incredibly useful tool. I especially like the fact that it
> > stores my contents in an encrypted fashion on the remote end, and
> > doesn't just rely on encryption for the transit (i.e. ssh). I do have a
> > major problem right now, to which I can't see a solution to at the
> > moment. I have looked through the mailing list archives, and found a
> > couple of situations that were similar, but after applying their
> > suggested fixes, I still have the problem. Perhaps someone can help!
> >
> > I have a large set of data (about 20GB) on a server that I'm attempting
> > to backup remotely to Dreamhost. A full backup runs for several hours
> > and then eventually cancels due to an interruption in the SSH
> > connection. I have tried to extend the SSH timeout to 1800, but this
> > hasn't helped at all.
> >
> > 1) Is there a solution to this problem that I'm overlooking?
> >
> > 2) Is there a feature in the roadmap to resume interrupted SSH/SCP-based
> > backups automatically?
> >
> > I haven't found any other backup tool to have the features of Duplicity
> > that I need (encrypted transit, encrypted remote storage,
> > full/incremental backups, easy CLI to backup/restore), so I'd like very
> > much for this to work if it can.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> >
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