# Resume backup after PC restart

**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/resume-backup-after-pc-restart/2163
**Category:** Features
**Created:** [January 20, 2018, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/resume-backup-after-pc-restart/2163 "2018-01-20T11:37:20Z")
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### Author: ![Toto31](https://forum.duplicati.com/user_avatar/forum.duplicati.com/toto31/32/5566_2.png) [@Toto31](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/Toto31)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/resume-backup-after-pc-restart/2163/10 "2018-02-19T21:40:51Z")

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Thank you for your suggestion of retention policy.  
The problem is that I am using Duplicati with a cold storage. Therefore I have disabled the auto-compact option (as mentionned here [Azure Blob - Using Archive Access Tier - #6 by kenkendk](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/azure-blob-using-archive-access-tier/674/6). By the way does the auto-compact really need to download the files? Can’t it use the local database instead? In that case maybe I can reactivate this option.)  
And with the auto-compact option disabled I thought it was preferable not to do back-ups so often to limit the size of the back-up. What do you think?

> [@Pectojin](#):
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> I’ve definitely interrupted Crashplan backups by just not caring and restarting the machine without checking… Users are just like that 😉

I agree. When you do so with Duplicati you get an error message. It shouldn’t be the case. It scares the user whereas everything works well.

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