Hi Christian, On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:20:52PM +0100, Christian G. von Busse wrote:
> Hi - I am rather new with backuppc, but with the help of the docs and the > web managed to setup a basic, working environment, backing up a Linux > (ubuntu) machine and windows clients to an ubuntu (8.04.1) server running > backuppc 3.0.0 (from the repository). > > Last night, I discovered that the initial, full backup of the Linux > machine (via rsyncd) did not finish, because the connection (vpn via > internet dial-up) broke. Although the connection was reestablished shortly > thereafter, the backup did not resume, but remained in the system as > "partial" backup. > > Moving the Linux machine into the LAN here will be difficult. So full > backups will have to be made via possibly shaky connections. Is there a > parameter/switch/way to get backuppc to resume backups (or try resuming > for a period of x) in case a connection should drop? timeout in > rsyncd.conf is set to 600, which is much more time than needed to > reestablish the VPN connection. BackupPC will automatically use the partial backup as a base during the next full backup, so you'll save a lot of network transfers. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.craniosacralzentrum.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
