Re: [BackupPC-users] Segmentation fault

[David K. <da...@ko...>]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:46:42 -0500
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <ch...@re...> wrote:

> On 08/18 06:53 , David Koski wrote:
> > UPDATE: When retrying, the directory pc/new gets cleaned out forcing a loss of
> > partial data. There goes 300+ Megs. Is this the expected behavior?
> 
> yes. 
> Backuppc will preserve partial backups from a full backup; and will attempt
> to re-use them if you run another *full* backup. 

But that is not what is happening. At least if the BackupPC_dump command is doing
a full backup with:

BackupPC_dump -v -f www

It definitely starts over and cleans out the "new" directory after having to
recover from a Segmentation fault. I can repeat many times without getting
anywhere.

David