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

[dean gaudet]

On Mon, 15 May 2006, The Anarcat wrote:

> dean gaudet wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 May 2006, The Anarcat wrote:
> > 
> >> Bah, i'll just create a /tmp partition. :)
> > 
> > might be /var/tmp :)  again i forget... sorry.
> 
> doing a /tmp part fixed it.
> 
> >>> 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.
> 
> Oooh.. but that's on the first image. That won't work.

this is your first backup and it failed?  then just delete 
target/rdiff-backup-data ... next time you can add "--force" to the 
rdiff-backup command and it will continue where it left off...

-dean