Arno Wald wrote:
> I did set up a backup for a remote system via NFS. Some of the files had 
> no read permissions, so the "dirvish --init --vault xyz" did not 
> completely succeed. I have corrected the permissions now and would like 
> to continue the initialisation without having to transfer all files 
> again. Is this possible somehow?

I can't help very much, because I don't know whether it is possible for
dirvish to do such a thing directly but I have two suggestions that may
help depending on how desperate you are to avoid starting again:

(1) It doesn't really matter that there are some files missing in the
initial backup, your first regular backup will copy across the missing
files. So it depends what you mean by 'did not completely succeed'. If
you mean that dirvish thinks it succeeded but some files are missing
then you don't need to do anything. If you mean dirvish failed, then if
you edit the dirvish files in the vault so as to convince dirvish that
the initialisation completed, all should be well.

(2) The underlying rsync can certainly complete a partial copy without
copying everything again. So perhaps it is possible to use rsync
directly and then fudge the dirvish records.

Cheers, Dave
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