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.

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