Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restarting failed backups with 1.2.x

[Scott Hannahs]

I think that it should be able to restart a full backup.  It has for me in the 
past.  However you switched from a full backup to an incremental backup which 
confused the system of trying to do an incremental on an incomplete (ie 
corrupted) full backup.

Just my $0.02 worth.

-Scott

> On Sep 21, 2023, at 8:55 AM, Jakob Bohm via Duplicity-talk 
> <duplicity-talk@nongnu.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> [Note that I am still using duplicity 1.2.1-patched]
> 
> Having disabled the supposedly buggy --asynchronous-upload option, I reran 
> full backup of my largest disk (3TiB used, 7TiB capacity), which reported in 
> progress messages that it would run for about 2 weeks over a 100Mbps uplink 
> to AWS S3).  However about a week into the backup, a router crash interrupted 
> the connection for 15 to 30 minutes, this caused duplicity to abort with 
> errors about the upload failing 5 times, but no final message like "duplicity 
> exited due to errors".
> 
> So confirming that no duplicity process was running (by using the ps 
> command), I restarted the backup in incremental mode, and contrary to past 
> mailing list messages from back in the 0.x era, the backup did not resume 
> where it left off but started over from scratch, with a new 2 week runtime to 
> wait for.
> 
> Questions:
> 
> - Is resuming after a failed backup a duplicity feature or not?
> 
> - Are there specific prerequisites or instructions for resuming a failed 
> backup?
> 
> - Do any of the command line arguments need to have special values to resume 
> a failed backup?
> 
> - Where is the Changelog for 1.2.2 and later?
> 
> - Where is the Changelog for transitioning from 1.2.x to 2.1.x?
> 
> - How long should we wait for all the 1.x to 2.0 kinks to be worked out, 
> industry experience says that too little time has passed since the 2.0 beta 
> was released?
> 
> 
> Enjoy
> 
> Jakob
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