Hi Erik, On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Erik Forsberg wrote:
Now and then, my backup server's diskspace gets full, and this most often happens during a backup. This means I have to run a rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir which takes some time. Also, due to restrictions in the setup, I have to login to the backup server and do this by hand. Would it be possible for rdiff-backup to make an estimation of how much space is needed, and exit with a warning about this instead of messing up the destination directory after an unclean exit due to full disk?
Seconded. In fact, even making rdiff-backup fail gracefully when out of disk space would help a lot. I have had my metadata irretrievably corrupted several times when the destination disk ran out of space, and therefore lost all my backup history.
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