Re: [BackupPC-users] risk of data-store corruption

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On 6/20/2010 11:56 AM, Lorenzo Franceschini wrote:
> Hi, I'm a newbie, but already very satisfied, BackupPC user.
>
> I have a question: what happens if the BackupPC server is shut down
> (either intentionally or, for example, by a power failure) in the middlle of
> an operation (dump, link, ecc.) ? Is there a risk that the data-store
> get corrupted ? Or the server has a buit-in mechanism to recover
> from this kind of situations ?
>
> Thanks in advance for any answer.

As far as backuppc itself is concerned, the backup just isn't complete 
and if it was a full rsync-type it will try to re-use what it got on the 
next attempt.   On the other hand, the filesystem itself can be 
corrupted and different OS's and filesystems have different ways to 
protect against that and to recover if it does happen.

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   Les Mikesell
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