The --partial option seems like it would do the trick.

Can anyone comment as to how hard it would be to put it into File::RsyncP?

David.

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On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Les Mikesell wrote:

> David Birnbaum wrote:
>
>>> 
>>> One approach is to use a VPN connection to the remote site.  Openvpn has 
>>> an option to do keepalives on the line - and to do lzo compression on the 
>>> data.
>> 
>> These files are often compressed already - for example, one client has very 
>> large MP3 files that contain multi-hour recorded conferences.  Being able 
>> to restart midstream would be a huge help.
>> 
>
> I think the only quick fix would be to have additional disk space somewhere 
> on the backuppc local side and 'rsync -PaH --delete' to make a snapshot to it 
> first, then let backuppc back that up for a history.
>
> --
>  Les Mikesell
>   lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
>
>

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