Re: Can I interrupt an rdiff-backup backup?

[Robert Nichols]

On 1/21/23 5:29 AM, Mike Hart wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've just started using rdiff-backup (rd-b), which I think is a great program.  
> I started an initial backup that I expected to take about 3 days, but during 
> the night my computer decided to reboot or at least close down the window 
> running rd-b (amongst others).
>
> I have re-started rd-b but as far as I can see there is no disk activity at all 
> on the local disk. There does appear to be some activity on the Server (remote 
> disk) which makes me think that rd-b is caught in an infinite loop of some sort.

The server is undoing the failed backup. This is a very lengthy operation. 
Since this is your initial backup, it will be faster to log into the server and 
simply delete the entire archive for this computer.

Unless this "3 days" is just due to a a slow network, this has the potential to 
be a big problem in the future. If a subsequent incremental backup should fail, the 
server could take that much time or more to regress the archive to the last successful 
backup.

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