tags 303020 + unreproducible
tags 303020 + moreinfo
thanks
Hi Cameron and thanks for using backup-manager.
> I recently installed backup-manager. Everything seemed to work okay.
> However, I needed to tweak a couple of things, and I used
> dpkg-reconfigure for this purpose, which causes my current problem.
Ok, using dpkg-reconfigure is the right way to do it.
> /etc and /root seem to backup okay (I haven't properly investigated) but
> the /home directory keeps building until the partition is full. As you
> can see, /home is 1.2 gig, but backup-manager gave up once the backup
> file filled the / partition (15 gig). The docs say I need to have a lot
> of room left on the partition, but really...!
definitely, I point my finger on the BM_DUMP_SYMLINKS option which is
set to true in your configuraiton file:
> # do you want to dereference the files pointed by symlinks ?
> # enter yes or no.
> export BM_DUMP_SYMLINKS="true"
I'm quite sure there is somewhere in your filesystem, under your /home
directory, a symlink that causes the problem.
Maybe a recursive link?
Anyway, the first thing to do is to disable this option (use
dpkg-reocnfigure) and to re-run backup-manager like that:
# backup-manager --force --verbose
If everything goes fine after that, it prooves that your problem comes
from a symlink under /home.
> This behaviour has only started since I changed the configuration. For
> what it's worth, the main change is that I enabled CD writing. However,
> whilst I suspect that I'll have trouble fitting this partition onto a
> 650 MB CDRW, I'm not sure that this is relevant, because the program
> doesn't get that far.
No, that's not bound to the burning engine, definitely check your
symlinks first ;)
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