1. A method comprises: receiving, at a processing module of a distributed storage (DS) processing unit, a store data object request; receiving, at the processing module of the distributed storage (DS) processing unit, a first section of a data object that contains less than a full amount of the data object; determining, via the processing module of the distributed storage (DS) processing unit, that communication of the data object has been interrupted; determining, via the processing module of the distributed storage (DS) processing unit, whether to store the first section of the data object; and storing the first section of the data object in a DS network when determined to store the first section of the data object.