Re: [Duplicity-talk] restart / continue a full backup?

[Timothee Besset]

Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Timothee Besset wrote:
>   
>> It would be very useful to have an option to restart or continue a full
>> backup. I'm having difficulties with some machines on which backup can
>> take more than 24h due to slow link and lots of data.
>>
>> Is such a feature planned?
>>     
>
> Such a feature is planned.  Until then, the best solution is to make
> your backups smaller, in other words don't backup from the root
> directory and hope that no errors occur for 24 hours.  Break up the
> process into a few smaller backups working your way through the list.
>
>   

Yep. I will breakdown the steps in the meantime. I just needed to hear
that it was on the todo list, which is great news. Let me know if you
need any early testing ;-)

TTimo

> The idea here is that you would be, in effect, doing your own checkpoint
> process.  If you set it up such that no one backup takes more than N
> hours, and you complete the rest of the backups, then the retry of that
> one is only N hours, not 24.
>
> ...Ken
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