Frederik wrote:
Actually, rdiff-backup is a disaster in dealing with full disks: looking at the size of rdiff-backup-data, a lot of space is used by old increments. Unfortunately, rdiff-backup --remove-older-than fails because no more disk space is available! So this leaves me with a chicken and egg problem: I have to make free space, but to free space, I have to remove old increments, which is impossible because the disk is full :-(
This is a good reason to have rdiff-backup run as a non-root user under normal conditions (such that when doing administrative commands as root, your root-only buffer on the drive [you've left that turned on in the filesystem options, right?] is available to allow the working space needed).
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