Re: [rdiff-backup-users] failure to regress, not enough space but there is

2013-08-06 Thread Greg Troxel
Dominic Raferd writes: > Definitely worth trying using command line switch --tempdir set to a > place where there is lots of space. Regressions do seem to require a > lot of temporary space. Thanks very much for the hint. I set --tempdir to a filesystem with about 1 TB free, and then --check-de

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] failure to regress, not enough space but there is

2013-08-04 Thread Dominic Raferd
Definitely worth trying using command line switch --tempdir set to a place where there is lots of space. Regressions do seem to require a lot of temporary space. Dominic On 04/08/13 16:13, Greg Troxel wrote: I have been doing rdiff-backup of a filesystem that's around 400 GB to external disks

[rdiff-backup-users] failure to regress, not enough space but there is

2013-08-04 Thread Greg Troxel
I have been doing rdiff-backup of a filesystem that's around 400 GB to external disks for about 2 years. As I got more bits, the free space on the 1T backup disk (which has other stuff) got small, perhaps around 100G. After a failed backup (due to me killing it, or something going wrong, but noth