Re: [Duplicity-talk] Can a first (full) backup be stopped mid-way, then continued?

[Matthew Twomey]

Sorry, I'm sure you've finished by now - but you can work around the
issue by simply deleting the last (partial) file on the backup location
(in your case the 3mb file). Then when you restart (with ssh) it will
pickup with that file again.

Thanks,

-Matt

On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 11:24 +0000, Chris Poole wrote:
> OK thanks.
> 
> 
> From reading those bug reports, my understanding is that the volume
> created which isn't full is assumed to be (under scp), so some files
> are not backed up correctly.
> 
> 
> I have checked my destination directory, and there is indeed a load of
> ~25MB files, along with the last volume which is ~3MB.
> 
> 
> If I simply started Duplicity again, but using a different protocol
> like rsync explicitly, would this fix the issue and erase and begin
> uploading this volume file again?
> 
> 
> Or to obtain a correct first full backup should I erase all files and
> start all over again?
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Matthew Twomey <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>         No - the resume functionality doesn't work properly yet for
>         ssh/scp.
>         
>         If you interrupt a backup and then continue it - it won't
>         produce a
>         usable backup you can restore from (although it won't give you
>         any
>         errors either during the backup process).
>         
>         Please see these two bugs on the topic:
>         
>         
>         https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/491971
>         https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/487720
>         
>         
>         Thanks,
>         
>         -Matt
>         
>         
>         On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 12:48 +0000, Chris Poole wrote:
>         > Hi guys,
>         > I have two quite basic questions:
>         >
>         >
>         > 1) I am running a full backup, which is going to take about
>         12 hours.
>         > Is it possible to C-c it half way through, then continue
>         later? Or
>         > will this mess stuff up?
>         >
>         >
>         > 2) I am using the scp protocol; I assume it still does the
>         usual rsync
>         > goodness with incremental backups (deltas, etc.)? (i.e.,
>         even though I
>         > haven't specified rsync:// as the protocol explicitly.)
>         >
>         >
>         > Thanks!
>         
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