Re: [rdiff-backup-users] no space left on regression

[dean gaudet]

On Mon, 15 May 2006, The Anarcat wrote:

> Bah, i'll just create a /tmp partition. :)

might be /var/tmp :)  again i forget... sorry.


> > if not you might try aging the oldest backup... if that doesn't work you 
> > might end up having to delete it by hand (by figuring out the timestamp 
> > which will be embedded in every related filename and deleting those 
> > files/directories from target/rdiff-backup-data).
> 
> ... aging the oldest backup? What does that mean?

rdiff-backup --remove-older-than ... or a much more manual and error prone 
method involving find(1) which i won't attempt to relate because it really 
does assume you know what you're doing.

-dean