Uwe Schuerkamp wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 12:52:44PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
>> My first inclination is to say that if the network connection to the
>> machine is sufficiently unstable that you can't complete a full backup,
>> you probably shouldn't be trying to back it up over the network.
>> However, there are ways to work around the problem.
>>
> 
> You could also try rsync'ing (rsync -av user@remotehost:/
> /backup/remote_host/) to a local filesystem and then backing
> that copy up locally. Should rsync abort it will skip the files which
> are already present & up to date on the local copy. 

You know, I believe that's exactly what I suggested in the rest of the
message that you just quoted the beginning of above.  :)


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