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update faq: we have in-file checkpoints now

note: until there is some means to list and extract the (partial) checkpoint
items, we do not need to talk about them.
Thomas Waldmann 9 years ago
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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