Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Full volume and rdiff-backup

[Daniel Einspanjer]

On 10/10/09 10:32 AM, Carl Chenet wrote:
> Le samedi 10 octobre 2009 à 10:17 -0400, Daniel Einspanjer a écrit :
>    
> > I'm very new to rdiff-backup, so take my advice with a grain of salt,
> > but maybe it doesn't need a *lot* of space..
> > Maybe you could move all the session_statistics*.data and
> > file_statistics.data.gz files out of the rdiff-backup-data directory
> > temporarily and then have enough space to --remove-older-than.
> >
> > -Daniel
> >      
> Yes, that's what I meant by "manually do some removals" but I think it
> could be interesting if rdiff-backup could manage this situation by
> itself, not relying on me :)
>
>    
That would be pretty cool, but it seems to me a pretty difficult 
challenge.  You have the power and knowledge to back up those files 
somewhere safe, but rdiff-backup wouldn't know where it could put them 
other than just deleting them.

-Daniel