Re: Can I interrupt an rdiff-backup backup?

On 1/21/23 12:19 PM, Mike Hart wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Actually if you don't mind indulging me, I have another question.  My intention is to do nightly backups.  If one of these failed could it take 3 days to roll back to the previous night?

That depends. Let's consider two extreme cases:
     (A) The machine being backed up is very small, but the backup is being done over a 56 Kb/s dialup connection and it takes 3 days to send the data for that initial, complete backup.
     (B) There are nearly a billion files totalling nearly 900 terabytes, and just writing that much data to a disk takes 3 days.

For case (A) the regression on the server would be quite fast. For case (B) it could take more than the 3 days it took to write the backup originally (and that could be true even for regressing a small incremental backup on that huge archive).

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