On Monday 16 March 2009 19:09:14 Kevin Keane wrote: > 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.
I've thought of a solution to copy failed job's volume into another one (I guess it's called migrating?), mark it OK somehow :) and then run incremental from the latter. I don't remember the details of my mighty plan as I never actually did it, but smth like that should be possible :) -- Silver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
