Re: [rdiff-backup-users] fix for error when trying to clean up a full filesystem

[John Soros]

Ok, sorry, i might have been a bit harsh...
No, what i don't understand, really, is why rdiff-backup needs free space to 
clean up old snapshots: no it doesn't, my patch goes to show that if you treat 
the cleanup as a read-only operation, it will go through smoothly: it 
*doesn't* need any free space, the only thing that needed free space for the 
cleanup was creating a useless temporary file.
Also, (this was a while ago, but if i remember correctly) if the tmpdir option 
did what it's told entirely (some temporary files were created in tmpdir, some 
in the backup root), you wouln't be in such a trouble when the disk is full.
I wonder if anyone had a look at my patch, and if so if they think it's of any 
interest? or do they have any other suggestions?
Thanks,
John


Alex Samad <address@hidden> wrote on Monday 07 December 2009
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:22:22PM +1000, Gavin wrote:
> > Mmm maybe or maybe just an admin flaw?
> > I'm not an rdiff-backup developer mind just a user.
> >
> > I think you might find a few bits of software that crash if they run out
> > of hard drive space.
> > There are other alert programs that alarm when drive space is getting
> > low.
> >
> > Sure it would be nice if rdiff-backup could recover and save one when
> > this happens and it
> > does happen. There was some discussion on list some time back about
> > being able to specify
> > temp space so that rdiff-backup could perform at least a roll back.
> 
> Another option is to have rdiff-backup look for a certain amount of free
> space (configurable) and fail if its not available
> 
> Alex
> 
> > Cheers
> > Gavin
> 
> [snip]
>

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