Date: 24 Mar 2006 09:24:49 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Noah" <admin2@enabled.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup Up On Unreliable Link Message-ID: <448xqzgbta.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20060323154810.M48910@enabled.com> References: <20060323154810.M48910@enabled.com>
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"Noah" <admin2@enabled.com> writes: > Hi there, > > No response so far on the rdiff-backup mail list. > > Does anybody have experience and/or recommendations and/or scripts that could > help somebody who usning rdiff-backup up across an unreliable link? If > rdiff-backup fails in the middle of a backup it regresses to the last backup > that finished successfully. If you are running this across an unreliable link > you could consistently have a partial backup. > > I would like to know if there are systems to solving this situation. > > Hope to get some input from other users. It depends on exactly what form of unreliability you are dealing with on the connection. One simple strategy you might try is to break the backup into smaller pieces (and run them sequentially). That still leaves you with partial backups in case of a failure, but you get better checkpointing capability.
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