On 12-08-27 09:57 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:19 AM, martin f krafft <madduck AT madduck DOT net> 
> wrote:
>>
>> However, the status quo seems broken to me. If BackupPC times out on
>> a backup and stores a partial backup, it should be able to resume
>> the next day. But this is not what seems to happen. The log seems to
>> suggest that each backup run uses the previous full backup (#506,
>> not the partial backup #507) as baseline:
>>
>>    full backup started for directory / (baseline backup #506)
> Rsync should resume a partial, and probably would if you did not have
> any other fulls.  I'm not sure how it decides which to use as the base
> in that case.
>

I've found it doesn't always do this.

The fix I've used is to --exclude a good chunk of the backup so it does 
finish in a day, then --exclude a little less the next time it runs, and 
so forth.

Unfortunately it's a slow, manual process.. but it works!

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