[rdiff-backup-users] Pukes once and no subsequent backups take place

[Jeffrey Forman]

Hey all,

Done some googling and seems the ML hopefully will come to my rescue.
The infrastructure team at gentoo uses rdiff-backup to make backups of
our numerous machines to one central host via cron and rdiff but seems
we have come to an impasse. Sync's complete fine via cron day in and day
out, but when one sync does not finish for whatever reason, no further
syncs ever take place, until we start it up again by hand. 
We can use 3 methods to get backups going again, none which are really
adequate:
        1. rm the whole backup directory
        2. create (fake) the mirror marker
        3. run it with --force

Is there any way to make it more resilient to interrupted backups? Such
as a "retry after X seconds" or some sort of keep alive algorithm. If
any of you have any ideas as to how to make rdiff more resilient about
backups, I am all ears...

Thanks!
Jeffrey
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Jeffrey Forman
Gentoo Infrastructure
Gentoo Release Engin.
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