On Monday 16 March 2009 19:09:14 Kevin Keane wrote:
> Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:47:18 -0700, Kevin Keane wrote:
> >
> >> I'm wondering if there is a way to resume (rather than restart from the
> >> beginning) a backup job that has aborted with an error?
> >>
> >> My situation is that I am backing up one client over an unreliable
> >> connection (an SSH tunnel that goes through a cable modem). A full
> >> backup of this client would take about two hours or so, but after about
> >> an hour or so, the connection goes down on me. So the full backup never
> >> completes. Rather than starting over the next day, I would like to
> >> resume the backup job.
> >>
> >
> > it's not possible to resume jobs. consider using the beta version or
> > the new 3.0 (when it's released). so you can do virtual full backups.
> > No more full backups needed after the first one.
> > another approach is to split the job into more jobs, so if one failes
> > not all jobs have to be restarted.
> >
> Thanks! I think splitting it is not a realistic option for me; the whole
> server is only 2 GB.
>
> But the suggestion was very useful anyway. Come to think about it, I
> think there are huge chunks of data (such as the whole /usr tree) that
> are easier to reinstall than to restore from backup anyway.
I've thought of a solution to copy failed job's volume into another one (I
guess it's called migrating?), mark it OK somehow :) and then run incremental
from the latter. I don't remember the details of my mighty plan as I never
actually did it, but smth like that should be possible :)
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