Rob Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Rob
> My concern becomes that a full over-the-internet backup will take quite > a lot of days. Are there any special precautions I need to take in > order to ensure that file transfers don't get "wasted" (eg, after 3 days > of transferring files, the internet connection goes down, but the full > backup did not complete). I think BackupPC retains and re-uses partial > full backups. But what happens in the case of multiple partial full > backups? I am not sure, but I believe that in this case backupc will keep every file it transfer, until your full is complete. I think that it will not keep partial transfered files, so if you have a very large file that never finishes to download (maybe because of a rsync timeout), your full will never complete. > I don't think partial incremental backups get retained, but correct me > if I'm wrong. Do I need to configure BackupPC to perform only full > backups until the initial full completes? Or is BackupPC smart enough > to not try an incremental until a complete full backup has been > done? Your backuppc will keep trying to complete the full backup before trying any incremental. You don't have to manually control this. Rodrigo > > Thanks for your help. > > -Rob > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
