On 05/06/14 11:52, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of May 6, 2014 6:51:26 PM +0300, Ali Khalfan is alleged to have said: >> I tried to backup a directory using an archive called sample using >> "tarsnap -c -f sample /home/user/dir1". >> >> Later I send a USR2 signal and then break the backup using ^C.
You wanted ^Q, which combines those two (creates a checkpoint, then exits). >> When I >> run the same tarsnap command again, I get an error saying it already >> exists as sample.part. >> >> What should I do in this case? how do i continue the backup on the >> .part file since I've been running the backup for days, I'm assuming >> there is something on the server. > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > What you need to do is change the name of the archive - nothing else. So: > `tarsnap -c -f newsample /home/user/dir1` > > Tarsnap will deduplicate any data that's already been sent, so it acts as if > you > continued the same backup. What Daniel said. You can delete the .part archive later -- just keep it around for long enough to be useful while you're creating your full archive. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
