Re: Can I interrupt an rdiff-backup backup?

[Patrik Dufresne]

Hello Mike,

Rdiff-backup is resilient to failure and will recover if the backup process
gets interrupted.

To help you understand why nothing happens when you start the backup, you
might want to increase the verbosity of rdiff-backup by using "-v"
something like "-v 5" or "-v 6" should help you understand why rdiff-backup
is doing under the hood.

On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 7:36 AM Mike Hart <mike@gavrillo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've just started using rdiff-backup (rd-b), which I think is a great
> program.  I started an initial backup that I expected to take about 3
> days, but during the night my computer decided to reboot or at least
> close down the window running rd-b (amongst others).
>
> I have re-started rd-b but as far as I can see there is no disk activity
> at all on the local disk. There does appear to be some activity on the
> Server (remote disk) which makes me think that rd-b is caught in an
> infinite loop of some sort.
>
> I do have a log file logging activity that is in a directory that is
> being backed up.  I mention this in case this could be a cause of problems.
>
> I am unsure what to do next.  Is it ok to crash out of the program?  If
> I just restart rdb, will it automatically correct the problems?
>
> Your advice would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Mike Hart
>
>

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