Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Strange Error -> No space left on device

[Keith Edmunds]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:43:35 +0100
Robert Tafner <address@hidden> wrote:

> At first it seemed clear that there is no space on device. The 
> /temp-file became too big. But how is the system able to make a backup 
> of /etc (last line) but not of /pulic (first line). I thought that there 
> is too less space...

rdiff-backup requires temporary space on the system being backed up, and I
suspect it is that that is running out of space. Once the backup of /public
has failed, the temporary space is cleared and the backup of /etc succeeds.
I suspect /etc is smaller than /public.

What does the output of 'df' show on the system being backed up?

Keith