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Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers
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edgar . soldin |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers |
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Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:39:34 +0200 |
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On 30.08.2011 05:18, Eliot Moss wrote:
>
> There is one thing I noticed that can perhaps be improved,
> though. If there is an interruption, then the interrupted
> volume transfer starts over from the beginning -- it does
> not use rsync's --partial / --partial-dir capability to
> use whatever was successfully transferred before the
> failure. At least I am seeing such full retransmissions
> (but only of the incomplete volume).
this is because duplicity only uses librsync to detect the changes in the
source. the upload to the backend is handled similar to a standard remote
filesystem. there is no resume implemented.
>
> Note that, given the size of the source I am backing up,
> I have set volsize to 1Gb so as not to have an really
> large collection of files. (Is this unwise?) So it is
> painful to start a volume over when 800Mb has been uploaded.
>
as there is no volume resuming only chain resuming you might want to consider
to tune that down again
> I could not find a way to adjust the rsync flags used
> (perhaps good, since people might hang themselves easily
> that way), but wonder if --partial-dir would be a good
> enhancement, and fairly easy to add?
see above, ede/duply.net
- [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, Eliot Moss, 2011/08/29
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, Nate Eldredge, 2011/08/29
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers,
edgar . soldin <=
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, Chris Poole, 2011/08/30
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, Eliot Moss, 2011/08/30
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, edgar . soldin, 2011/08/30
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, Eliot Moss, 2011/08/30
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, edgar . soldin, 2011/08/31
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, Kenneth Loafman, 2011/08/31
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, edgar . soldin, 2011/08/31
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, Eliot Moss, 2011/08/31
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, edgar . soldin, 2011/08/31
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, Eliot Moss, 2011/08/31