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

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Jeffrey Forman <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 02 Jun 2004 10:18:47 -0500
> 
> 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...

Why do the second and later sessions fail?  One may fail for random
reasons, but the next session after that is supposed to work.


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Ben Escoto

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