[BackupPC-users] Transferred data lost
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 -- Yves Trudeau, Ph. D., MCSE, OCP Analyste Senior Révolution Linux 819-780-8955 poste *104 Toutes les opinions et les prises de position exprimées dans ce courriel sont celles de son auteur et ne répresentent pas nécessairement celles de Révolution Linux Any views and opinions expressed in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Revolution Linux - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Transferred data lost
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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Transferred data lost
Yves writes: 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. A partial backup is saved on failure. With rsync and rsyncd the next full backup essentially does an incremental (just checking the attributes) on the files already in the partial, and copies the other files that aren't in the partial. So while the new directory starts off empty, all the files in the partial that haven't changed are hardlinked without being transferred. Craig - 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.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
