Hi,

Kenneth Porter wrote on 2008-09-10 16:38:33 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] 
Stopping server while backup in progress]:
> --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.

it would be, but it's not true. Only for full backups are partials saved and
reused, not for incremental backups. And even then, I wouldn't rely on it too
much. BackupPC_dump only has one (1) second between being sent a SIGINT and a
SIGKILL by BackupPC. I couldn't guess if that's enough time for the cleanup
code to finish successfully under normal circumstances. I would guess the code
for saving partials was designed for backup failures (broken links and such),
not for aborted backups.

Regards,
Holger

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