Re: [Duplicity-talk] Long running duplicity

[Jan Kratochvil]

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:24:27 +0100, Ken Smith wrote:
> I have a duplicity that has been running for two and a half days and
> is probably only 20% finished.  It is the first full backup.
> 
> If it stops for some reason and I restart it, will it pick up where it
> left off or will it tell me that it has to do a full backup because it
> didn't finish?

No, the partial upload will be droppped.  Even the incremental backups need to
completely finish or they will also get ignored.

For this reason I have to backup to an external drive locally first and then
upload the files repeatedly by rsync(1) to the remote server as the full backup
takes about a month of upload over my instable link.

Sure it is a seriously missing feature of Duplicity but the additional local
drive is an acceptable workaround as the drive may break or it may get stolen
without any data loss/exploit.


Regards,
Jan