I'm also going do be depending on this feature shortly (not discarding partial transfers), so I second Carl's proposal.
-Rob Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > BackupPC does not pick up where a 'partial' transfer left off in many cases. > I don't fully understand the mechanism (tho it is somewhat explained here: > http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/2004-08/msg00013.html > ); but the result is that perfectly good files are deleted from the partial > backup. > > This is completely non-intuitive, if one is familiar with the way rsync > works. One would expect subsequent partial backups to keep transferring new > files, instead of deleting perfectly good files. > > I've also just tried this with tar under BackupPC 3.0.0, and the behavior is > still there. > > I know this is an old issue, but it's bitten me a few times, and recently > caused me to lose an entire weekend's worth of backup data transfer; so I'd > like to re-iterate a desire to have this bug fixed. > > Can we at least put in a minor code change to not trash files from a partial > backup? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
