bugrdiff-backup - Bugs: bug #16809, rdiff backup uses lots of /tmp...

 
 

bug #16809: rdiff backup uses lots of /tmp space cleaning up a failed backup

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Submitted on:  Sat 10 Jun 2006 06:30:45 PM UTC  
 
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Wed 18 Jul 2007 10:06:42 PM UTC, comment #1:

rdiff-backup as of version 1.1.13 now has option to specify the directory used for temporary space.

See --tempdir and --remote-tempdir in the man page.

Andrew Ferguson <owsla>
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Sat 10 Jun 2006 06:30:45 PM UTC, original submission:

I am using rdiff backup to backup a big shared volume (~500GB). One night the backup failed due to networking issues, and when I restarted it, I got the message about "last backup failed, cleaning up".

Some time later, the cleanup failed, indicating it was out of space. My /tmp directory only has about 8GB of free space, and apparently whatever cleanup it was doing required much more space than that.

It seems like a bug that cleaning up a failed backup requires much more /tmp space than actually doing a backup (I can run the backups fine from the remote machine to a mounted volume on my target system). Perhaps just an option to point rdiff backup to a different place for temorary space would be sufficient.

Thanks for a great piece of software

Anonymous

 

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