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[Kenneth Loafman <kenneth@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:05 PM, virtual joe <
question163372@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Question #163372 on Duplicity changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/163372
>
>     Status: Answered => Open
>
> virtual joe is still having a problem:
> Thanks, i noticed the sigtar file was 2GB so I thought perhaps it hit a
> limit and it should have been bigger...
>
> And here is the ORIGINAL first time I ran duplicity...which completely
> with no errors.
>
> sudo duplicity --verbosity 5 --gpg-options "--cipher-algo=AES256"
> --exclude /sys --exclude /proc --exclude /tmp --exclude /dev /
> scp://dupeuser@remotebackupserver:Port//home/dupeuser/securebackup &>
> /tmp/log.txt
>
> It finished with...
> --------------[ Backup Statistics ]--------------
> StartTime =  (Fri Jun 24 18:55:53 2011)
> EndTime =  (Sun Jun 26 18:41:20 2011)
> ElapsedTime =  (47 hours 45 minutes 27.11 seconds)
> SourceFiles 4286221
> SourceFileSize 647289397479 (603 GB)
> NewFiles 4286221
> NewFileSize 647289397479 (603 GB)
> DeltaEntries 4286221
> RawDeltaSize 647076853204 (603 GB)
> TotalDestinationSizeChange 486622349288 (453 GB)
> Errors 0
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> For the second time I ran duplicity.....this time I ran it from script
> with "sudo ./securebackup.sh &
>
> Inside the securebackup.sh script:
> #!/bin/bash
> export PASSPHRASE="MyPassPhraseWasHere"
> duplicity --verbosity "5" --gpg-options "--cipher-algo=AES256" --exclude
> "/sys" --exclude "/proc" --exclude "/tmp" --exclude "/dev" --exclude
> "/restores" / scp://dupeuser@remoteserverbackup:Port//data/securebackup &>
> /tmp/"Log_`date +%m%d%Y`.log.txt"
>
> >From ps aux | grep dup .... Here is my CURRENT running process that's
> doing the duplicity incremental:
>
> /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/duplicity --verbosity 5 --gpg-options --cipher-
> algo=AES256 --exclude /sys --exclude /proc --exclude /tmp --exclude /dev
> --exclude /restores /
> scp://dupeuser@remotebackupserver:Port//data/securebackup
>
> Its currently running and uploading volume difftar 1666 (so 26x is 43GBs
> now)....
>
> If I kill -8 the duplicity backup , without deleting anything, and
> restart it, will it just resume from where it left off?
>

Yes.  I'd use kill -9 instead.


> Also, what if I kill -8 duplicity backup, and then DELETE all the
> Duplicity-INC* files, is that ok? Can I then simply restart duplicity
> and it will try to redo the incremental  from scratch? thanks again
>

Yes.