Christian Völker wrote:
>
> |> If the full backup fails, does it start from scratch every time or are
> |> some files already stored in the backup and used during the next try, so
> |> it'll finish some day?
> | If you are using rsync as the transfer method it will continue
> | approximately where it stopped.
> Hmmm...may I check in some way how many data has been backed up? Even if
> it was a failed full backup?
> I remember it took me several days to initialize the rsnapshot backup.
> But when I check the rsync open files on the server it always stays in
> the same folder...
The web interface should show a 'partial' until the backup completes. I
don't have one in that state so I'm not sure how much other info you
get. A brute force way to check is to go to the backuppc pc/hostname
directory and do a 'du' to see how much is there after each run - or
something like a 'find -ctime -1 .'
> |> Assume, the full backup is finished after two weeks- will the next full
> |> backup take the same amount of time?
> | If you are using rsync it will be much faster next time, sending only
> | the changes.
> If so, again the question what is then the difference between a full
> rsync backup and an incremental one? I think I'll have to read the docs
> again to understand this...tried already several times, didn't succesed ;-)
The main difference is that fulls do the equivalent of --ignore-times to
the rsync run and rebuild the archive tree. The checksum comparison
takes some extra time but not much bandwidth.
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Les Mikesell
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