"resume later" doesn't appear to work when creating a fresh backup
I have been using Deja Dup for about three months to back up a linux laptop over a LAN to a windows share on a NAS. The total amount to be backed up is about 75Gb and about half of that is one virtualbox .vdi file. The backup fails every now and then because of a connection timeout. This was most noticeable when I did the initial full backup. I just kept restarting the backup and it eventually finished.
Today when I started the backup Deja Dup said it was doing a "fresh backup" to avoid corruption. The backup has failed four or five times so far due to connection timeouts. Each time I restarted the backup DD deleted all the files it had uploaded on the previous failed run. So I looked on the support forum and found a question from a couple of years ago where someone was having the same problem of failure of long backups and the recommended solution was to use the "resume later" button to break the backup into shorter sessions.
I tried using the "resume later" button - the backup session stopped immediately and I could see the files that had been uploaded to the share, but when I started the next backup (expecting it to resume from the same point), DD deleted the files it had previously uploaded and started from the beginning again. Can anyone explain what is happening here and suggest a fix?
Thanks
Ross
Question information
- Language:
- English Edit question
- Status:
- Expired
- For:
- Déjà Dup Edit question
- Assignee:
- No assignee Edit question
- Last query:
- Last reply: