Hello, I once have issue with disk space when backing-up special files. e.g.: socket or device (like /dev or /proc). Make sure to only backup real file. Check rdiff-backup manual to exclude those files.
-- Patrik Dufresne Service Logiciel inc. http://www.patrikdufresne.com <http://patrikdufresne.com/>/ 514-971-6442 1-114 rue des Hautbois, St-Colomban, QC J5K 2H6 On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 1:18 PM, <apa...@mail.ru> wrote: > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda3 15G 1.7G 14G 11% / > udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev > tmpfs 396M 41M 356M 11% /run > tmpfs 989M 0 989M 0% /dev/shm > tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock > tmpfs 989M 0 989M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup > /dev/sda4 1.8T 1.5T 402G 79% /home > /dev/sda1 976M 32M 878M 4% /boot > tmpfs 198M 0 198M 0% /run/user/1000 > /dev/sdb1 2.7T 2.3T 322G 88% /backups > > I am running rdiff-backup as root indeed, both locally in the server > and in the laptop that I back up over SSH, as aside of my home > directories I also back up some system directories. > > A bit of find sorcery (find -printf "%b %p\n" | sort -nr) tells me the > biggest file under my laptop's home directory is under 2 GB, so those > 14 should be plenty, but I still tried custom temp directories > under /home and /backups, to no avail. > > /backups has more free space than I said earlier because I deleted some > old increments just in case. > > For whatever it's worth, I also tried writing to /backups and checked > its SMART status with smartctl, found nothing fishy. I also ran > "dumpe2fs -h" to make sure there were free inodes, as I found suggested > elsewhere. > > > what is the output of > > > > $ df -h > > > > some filesystems reserve space for root, but if you are running this > > command as root that should not be the problem. > > > > andrew > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org > > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > > Wiki URL: > > http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki > > _______________________________________________ > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > Wiki URL: > http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki >
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