Re: [rdiff-backup-users] SOME ONE PLEASE HELP ME!! WHAT SHOULD I DO!?!

[Martin Pool]

On 19 Apr 2004, Robert Yoon <address@hidden> wrote:

> I have a dilemma and im not sure what the best thing
> to do is.   I am currently attempting to run rdiff on
> several servers.  All the servers i am backing up has
> a large /home partition of about 100-400 gigs.   I
> have had success running rdiff backing up partitions
> of 30 gigs.  But I keep running into some issue with
> the larger mount points.   Rdiff seems to fail and
> since its crond  if the mount point backup fails the
> night before, the backups continuously fail.

What kind of failures?

> Now
> since the backups fail on the /home partition, I was
> thinking if its more sensible to perhaps 
> ssh hostname ls /home   and pipe that into a file so I
> run rdiff on all the directories seperately.  I assume
> this is better to do in terms of getting backups of
> all the directories vs, losing the entire /home
> partition.    

That would make each individual backup directory smaller, which might
give you a better chance of them running to completion.


> In regards to the failures of backups. If the backups
> fail, is there any way to recover, so that crond jobs
> succeed every time, vs me having to monitor if the
> backups succeed everyday?  If the backups fail, does
> it error out in bash to 1, so that it knows that the
> backup failed?  I wanted to script it so that if it
> errors out, to remove the rdiff-data-backup directory
> from that directory, and retry the backup.  Any one
> out there run into these types of issues?

Don't you want --check-destination-dir?


-- 
Martin

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