Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restart is impossible

[Scott Hansen]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 08:23:17PM +0100, Tim Eggleston wrote:
> 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

Check this thread: https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/183711
and see if that might be your issue. Make sure you increase verbosity to
debug so you can see what's going on.

Scott