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update faq: we have in-file checkpoints now

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note: until there is some means to list and extract the (partial) checkpoint
items, we do not need to talk about them.
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Thomas Waldmann 2016-07-21 21:11:47 +02:00
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@ -225,10 +225,7 @@ During a backup a special checkpoint archive named ``<archive-name>.checkpoint``
is saved every checkpoint interval (the default value for this is 30
minutes) containing all the data backed-up until that point.
Checkpoints only happen between files (so they don't help for interruptions
happening while a very large file is being processed).
This checkpoint archive is a valid archive (all files in it are valid and complete),
This checkpoint archive is a valid archive,
but it is only a partial backup (not all files that you wanted to backup are
contained in it). Having it in the repo until a successful, full backup is
completed is useful because it references all the transmitted chunks up