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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] No space left/setxattr problem.
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Andrew Engelbrecht |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] No space left/setxattr problem. |
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Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:13:44 -0400 |
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On 03/26/2016 12:10 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
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> I need help tracking down this problem with rdiff-backup.
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> Today my weekly backups failed with IOError: [Errno 28] No space left
> on device, as have all following attempts to --check-destination-dir.
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> There were 255 GB free on the backups drive and 14 GB on / (where /tmp
> resides), both more than enough. Additionaly, pointing --tempdir or
> the TMPDIR, TMP and TEMP variables to a different location made no
> difference. I'm quite convinced lack of disk space is not actually
> the problem.
what is the output of
$ df -h
some filesystems reserve space for root, but if you are running this
command as root that should not be the problem.
andrew