On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:24:36AM -0500, Charles Duffy wrote: > 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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