That seems to have done it; the regress succeeded, and hopefully I can now back-up my computer.
Thanks for your help. -Leon On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > Leon Maurer <leon.mau...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Howdy, > > > > I'm having trouble with rdiff-backup crashing. It claims there's "No > space > > left on device", which is patently false. The drive is a 2TB drive that's > > 66% free when rdiff-backup is running: > > > > leon@leon-MiniPC:/media/seagate$ df -h | grep seagate > > /dev/sdc1 1.9T 604G 1.3T 33% /media/seagate > > My memory is slightly fuzzy, but I think that rdiff-backup stores things > in /tmp, particularly when regressing failed backups. I ran into > symptoms similar to yours when using rdiff-backup on NetBSD 5 (i386) > backing up a large (500G used out of most of 2T) filesystem onto a 2T > external drive. All filesystems were ffs (UFS2). But /tmp on my > system is a mere 1GB, using tmpfs (stores in virtual memory). I think I > set TMPDIR=/path/on/huge/real/disk/tmp and then was able to do the > regress. >
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