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
Hi Robert
Many thanks for the reply. Your answer explains why there's no activity
on the local drive but steady activity on the remote drive (as well as
what rdiff-backup is doing, of course).
I'm going to delete the lot and start again, but I have a problem
deleting the rdiff-backup-data
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
On 1/21/23 5:29 AM, Mike Hart 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
Hi
Actually if you don't mind indulging me, I have another question. My
intention is to do nightly backups. If one of these failed could it
take 3 days to roll back to the previous night?
On 21/01/2023 15:18, Robert Nichols wrote:
On 1/21/23 5:29 AM, Mike Hart wrote:
Hi
I've just
Hi,
On 22/01/2023 05:52, Robert Nichols wrote:
On 1/21/23 12:14 PM, Mike Hart wrote:
Hi Robert
Many thanks for the reply. Your answer explains why there's no
activity on the local drive but steady activity on the remote drive
(as well as what rdiff-backup is doing, of course).
I'm going
On 1/21/23 12:14 PM, Mike Hart wrote:
Hi Robert
Many thanks for the reply. Your answer explains why there's no activity on the
local drive but steady activity on the remote drive (as well as what
rdiff-backup is doing, of course).
I'm going to delete the lot and start again, but I have a
On 1/21/23 12:19 PM, Mike Hart wrote:
Hi
Actually if you don't mind indulging me, I have another question. My intention
is to do nightly backups. If one of these failed could it take 3 days to roll
back to the previous night?
That depends. Let's consider two extreme cases:
(A) The
