Re: [rdiff-backup-users] can rdiff-backup be stopped / paused / restarted? - HOWTO?

[Lexje]

Thanks a lot, for your tip.
Are you aware of any similar method that would allow scheduling and resume?

Erwin


Andreas Olsson-4 wrote:
> 
> On Sunday 13 January 2008 15:13:30 Lexje wrote:
>> I'm trying to backup a complete server over the internet.
>> Is it possible to pause, stop / restart rdiff-backup? (To free up /
>> respect
>> bandwith limitations)
>>
>> What happens if I just ctrl-c the process, and then restart the process?
>> Will it resume?
> 
> No, I'm afraid that approach won't work. If you abort rdiff-backup halfway 
> you'll simply end up with a broken repository on the destination.
> 
> If this happens on the first backup you'll simply have to remove/empty
> your 
> destination directory and begin from scratch. If you abort a backup to an 
> existing repository your next run will start by calling an 
> automatic --check-destination-dir, which will return your repository to
> the 
> state it was in before your interrupted transfer. In none of the cases the 
> interrupted transfer will have done you any good.
> 
> What you can try, if you have enough free space, is to run rdiff-backup 
> against a local destination and then rsync the repository to its remote 
> location.  Rsync you can always trust to resume properly :-)
> 
> Feel free to take a look at this page in the wiki. It also provides a
> script 
> which wraps rdiff-backup and rsync into one.
> 
> http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/BackupUpOnUnreliableLink
> 
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