Re: Can I interrupt an rdiff-backup backup?

[Mike Hart]

Hi

Actually if you don't mind indulging me, I have another question.  My 
intention is to do nightly backups.  If one of these failed could it 
take 3 days to roll back to the previous night?

On 21/01/2023 15:18, Robert Nichols wrote:
> 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.