Re: [rdiff-backup-users] recovering from interrupted backups

[David Kempe]

Jeffrey Forman wrote:
> i've been in the situation where i'm backing up a machine to another and
> the backup gets cut in the middle. usually since the boxes are across
> the continent from each other, the network has a hiccup. since my backup
> jobs are cron'd, after that first interrupted backup, it fails to backup
> subsequent backups. i have to completely rm -rf the directory on the
> machine receiving the backup and start over again.

You should only have to remove the rdiff-backup-data dir.


> what can i do on either end so that backups recover from interrupted
> backups?

if you only remove the rdiff-backup-data dir and use --force, then it 
will get recreated and the intitial backup will have a better chance of 
completing. Then the increments shouldn't take too long.

dave