Unfortunately, yes. What you might want to do is put some of the larger directories in the BackupFilesExclude folder for that client. Then, do a full backup. After that backup succeeds, remove one of the excluded folders and trigger another backup. Rinse, repeat.
This way you will populate the set of files that BackupPC knows about, and subsequent backups will skip them quickly and move on to the 'new' files, transferring only those. Once the whole machine has had all its files backed up once, even a slow connection is pretty dependable for backups. In my experience, having a single very long backup over a slow connection is doomed to fail repeatedly for various reasons (loss of connection, reboot, network hiccup, etc). Hope that helps, JH Yves Trudeau wrote: > Hi, > we are experimenting with backuppc et we are backuping a 30 GB share > over Internet with rsyncd. This morning, after more than 30 hours of > transfer, the remote host was accidentely rebooted so the connection > was lost for a few minutes. Backuppc restarted the backup very nicely > but, the content of the "new" folder seems to be lost and all the files > are transfert again. Is it the normal behavior of backuppc? We use > 3.0.0beta3. > > Yves > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
