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i've been in the situation where i'm backing up a machine to another and
the backup gets cut in the middle. usually since the boxes are across
the continent from each other, the network has a hiccup. since my backup
jobs are cron'd, after that first interrupted backup, it fails to backup
subsequent backups. i have to completely rm -rf the directory on the
machine receiving the backup and start over again.

what can i do on either end so that backups recover from interrupted
backups?

-jeffrey

Jeffrey Forman wrote:
i've been in the situation where i'm backing up a machine to another and
the backup gets cut in the middle. usually since the boxes are across
the continent from each other, the network has a hiccup. since my backup
jobs are cron'd, after that first interrupted backup, it fails to backup
subsequent backups. i have to completely rm -rf the directory on the
machine receiving the backup and start over again.

You should only have to remove the rdiff-backup-data dir.


what can i do on either end so that backups recover from interrupted
backups?

if you only remove the rdiff-backup-data dir and use --force, then it
will get recreated and the intitial backup will have a better chance of
completing. Then the increments shouldn't take too long.

dave

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 20:56:16 -0500
Jeffrey Forman <jforman < at > mail.utexas.edu> wrote:

i have to completely rm -rf the directory on the
machine receiving the backup and start over again.

what can i do on either end so that backups recover from interrupted
backups?

You don't need to 'rm -rf' the target directory: take a look at the
rdiff-backup FAQ.

Keith