What happens when you interrupt a backup process?

[salotz]

If I need to cancel a backup in the middle and I want to restart later (for example lets say I need to restart my computer but I am in the middle of a backup and I don’t want to wait for the backup to finish) can I just Ctrl-C and then resume the backup later. This is how I use rsync I just didn’t see anything specific about that for duplicacy.

[towerbr]

Welcome to the forum @salotz!

No problem. Duplicacy will resume from the point it was interrupted.

How to properly do an initial backup to B2?

picks off from where it left, and even in the case when it doesn’t, it will still find the chunks already existing in B2 during the backup process and not reupload them again.

Power outage during initial backup -- starting over at 0%?

Hey all, I’m new to duplicacy and I had a machine doing an initial backup to B2, but the power went out after a couple of days when it was around 45% complete. I started the backup again and it skipped a bunch of chunks at the beginning, but it still seems to be starting over at 0% and is only very gradually increasing. Does this mean the previous progress was lost, or will it skip the remaining chunks it already uploaded later in the process? I was expecting all of the skipped chunks to be at …