Objects backed up by an interrupted/failed session

[DanielJ]

I have a Sharepoint job running where only a single site is still being backed up. It has been running for over 300 hours and it looks like it will never finish (and this is an incremental run, not a full). If I stop the job, I won't get a usable restore point. But will the data backed up so far by this session be of any use in the next session, or will it all be downloaded again?

[Polina]

Hi Daniel,

The downloaded data will remain in the repository and will be reused on the next job run. However, if you stop the current session no change token will be saved, which means that all the objects will have to be enumerated all over again because VBO will have no clue if an object is already in the repository and if it's in the relevant state or has been changed since the stopped session.

[DanielJ]

OK, I see. It's good that the data is not completely wasted. But it would be better if it was accessible, since it's in the repository anyway. It could be a feature request that VBO gets an option to create a restore point in such a case, including the data collected so far, but skipping the rest. It could get a flag that shows it as "incomplete" in the restore GUI.