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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Continuing an interrupted backup.
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Kenneth Loafman |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Continuing an interrupted backup. |
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Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:53:26 -0500 |
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Mark Price wrote:
> What happens when a backup is interrupted/fails part way through?
>
> I was running a fairly large (7.3GB) backup yesterday from a remote ssh
> session, the ssh session died sometime over night. This was an initial,
> full, backup but had only completed 5GB when the ssh session crapped out
> for whatever reason.
>
> If I kick off another backup with the "full" option will it continue
> where it left off or will it start from scratch? Should I kick off an
> "incremental" instead?
>
> Basically what is the recover process here to end up with a full, and
> intact backup set?
Sorry, there is no recovery process. What you will need to do is run:
$ duplicity --cleanup --force target_url
to clean up the target directory, then rerun the full backup. I would
also suggest using 'screen' to allow you to disconnect and/or allow the
ssh session to disconnect without disturbing the backup task.
...Ken
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