Re: [Duplicity-talk] Long running duplicity

[Ken Smith]

On Jan 12, 2008 11:05 AM, Jan Kratochvil <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:24:27 +0100, Ken Smith wrote:
> > I have a duplicity that has been running for two and a half days and
> > is probably only 20% finished.  It is the first full backup.
> >
> > If it stops for some reason and I restart it, will it pick up where it
> > left off or will it tell me that it has to do a full backup because it
> > didn't finish?
>
> No, the partial upload will be droppped.  Even the incremental backups need to
> completely finish or they will also get ignored.

That's what I thought.  Bummer, but ok.

> For this reason I have to backup to an external drive locally first and then
> upload the files repeatedly by rsync(1) to the remote server as the full 
> backup
> takes about a month of upload over my instable link.

This is a solid plan and I have two 500GB Kuroboxes on my LAN that I
can use for staging.

   Thank you for the idea.
   Ken