On Sunday 13 January 2008 15:13:30 Lexje wrote: > I'm trying to backup a complete server over the internet. > Is it possible to pause, stop / restart rdiff-backup? (To free up / respect > bandwith limitations) > > What happens if I just ctrl-c the process, and then restart the process? > Will it resume?
No, I'm afraid that approach won't work. If you abort rdiff-backup halfway you'll simply end up with a broken repository on the destination. If this happens on the first backup you'll simply have to remove/empty your destination directory and begin from scratch. If you abort a backup to an existing repository your next run will start by calling an automatic --check-destination-dir, which will return your repository to the state it was in before your interrupted transfer. In none of the cases the interrupted transfer will have done you any good. What you can try, if you have enough free space, is to run rdiff-backup against a local destination and then rsync the repository to its remote location. Rsync you can always trust to resume properly :-) Feel free to take a look at this page in the wiki. It also provides a script which wraps rdiff-backup and rsync into one. http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/BackupUpOnUnreliableLink -- Andreas Olsson http://www.andreasolsson.se/
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