On Sunday 13 January 2008 23:50:56 Lexje wrote: > Thanks a lot, for your tip. > Are you aware of any similar method that would allow scheduling and resume?
Well, I'm not sure if I have any elegant or good solution. What should work thought is to have cron run scripts which will first start and then later brutally kill your rsync-process. // Andreas > > Andreas Olsson-4 wrote: > > 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/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > > Wiki URL: > > http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
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