This happened to me again last night. I lost 2 GB of partial transfer (which took a long time to get -- uploaded from a home internet connection).
One way to fix this would be to do a straight rsync of the files to a temporary location, then let BackupPC do its thing, integrating the new files into the pool. But this would require a very large temporary location. So maybe BackupPC could be programed to do its thing after 'x' number of MB have been transferred to the temporary location, thus reducing the space requirement. Meanwhile rsync would continue transferring files and BackupPC would "do its thing" again once the temporary location had a new set of 'x' MB worth of files. I have no idea if this is feasible or not, but I figured I'd throw it out there for the experts on the list to think about. -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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
