Hi Christian,

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:20:52PM +0100, Christian G. von Busse wrote:

> Hi - I am rather new with backuppc, but with the help of the docs and the
> web managed to setup a basic, working environment, backing up a Linux
> (ubuntu) machine and windows clients to an ubuntu (8.04.1) server running
> backuppc 3.0.0 (from the repository).
> 
> Last night, I discovered that the initial, full backup of the Linux
> machine (via rsyncd) did not finish, because the connection (vpn via
> internet dial-up) broke. Although the connection was reestablished shortly
> thereafter, the backup did not resume, but remained in the system as
> "partial" backup.
> 
> Moving the Linux machine into the LAN here will be difficult. So full
> backups will have to be made via possibly shaky connections. Is there a
> parameter/switch/way to get backuppc to resume backups (or try resuming
> for a period of x) in case a connection should drop? timeout in
> rsyncd.conf is set to 600, which is much more time than needed to
> reestablish the VPN connection.

BackupPC will automatically use the partial backup as a base during the
next full backup, so you'll save a lot of network transfers.

HTH,

Tino.

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