[Duplicity-talk] Restart is impossible

[Tim Eggleston]

Hi list,

On attempting to back up a large (250GB) fileshare area, duplicity gets 
interrupted due to a problematic internet connection. It is unable to 
resume the backup from where it left off, giving the message:

RESTART: The first volume failed to upload before termination.
         Restart is impossible...starting backup from beginning.

And then starts back again at volume 1.

However, looking on the backup target server I can see that many of the 
volumes have in fact been uploaded successfully.

On smaller areas, full + incremental backups work fine, and restores 
work fine. It's just the restart functionality which is problematic.

This is a Debian box backing up to a Ubuntu box, running Duplicity 
0.6.18. My invocation is as follows:

duplicity full --encrypt-key "${KEYID}" --sign-key "${KEYID}" 
--num-retries 3 --name fileshare_files --exclude /mnt/files/lost+found 
/mnt/files 
scp://address@hidden//data/backups/${CLIENTNAME}/duplicity/fileshare_files"

Am I doing anything obviously wrong? Could this be a bug?

Cheers,

 -- Tim