--On Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:01 PM -0500 Bruno Faria 
<brunothebigb AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> Well, if you stop backuppc with "service backuppc stop" this will also
> stop all backups that are in progress.
>
> If you are using "rsync" as your backup method, then the backup will be
> saved as a "partial" backup, and it will continue when backuppc is started
> again.

I am in fact using rsync, so that's good to know.

> Now, if you just want restart backuppc gracefully so that it may recognize
> any changes that you may have done to the config file, then you should use
> "service backuppc reload". This will cause backuppc to be restarted
> gracefully and no backups that are in progress will be stopped.

No, I'm stopping it so that the state of the disk will be consistent when 
my system backup's verify pass runs. If I leave BackupPC running, it 
constantly changes the pool and I get a lot of "missing" file reports from 
the verify.

(The better solution would be to use the Linux volume storage mechanism to 
back up a snapshot, but at the time I initially set up the server, I wasn't 
aware of this feature and didn't leave space for a snapshot partition.)

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