diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index f3cccc2ae..f36aaa923 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -225,10 +225,7 @@ During a backup a special checkpoint archive named ``.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