[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup ate all my /var/tmp space

[remi . delmas . 3000]

Hi,

I've started using rdiff-backup two weeks ago, and since then, I've been running
two backups per day of approximately 35Gigs of data from my personal computer PC
to a backup machine BM with the following config :

BM is running a minimal ubuntu 6.06.1 installation

/ is on a 80 gigs disk.

/home is a stripped LVM of 484Gigs, this is where the target directory of the
backup is located

there is 16gigs of swap taken from the stripped LVM volume.


today I started to get this error message from rdiff-backup :


/*******************************/
Exception '[Errno 2] No usable temporary directory found in ['/tmp', '/var/tmp',
'/usr/tmp', '/']' raised of class 'exce
ptions.IOError':
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 298, in
error_check_Main
    try: Main(arglist)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 314, in
Main
    Security.initialize(action or "mirror", cmdpairs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Security.py", line 53, in
initialize
    set_security_level(action, cmdpairs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Security.py", line 120, in
set_security_level
    rdir = tempfile.gettempdir()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/tempfile.py", line 262, in gettempdir
    tempdir = _get_default_tempdir()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/tempfile.py", line 208, in _get_default_tempdir
    raise IOError, (_errno.ENOENT,

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 298, in
error_check_Main
    try: Main(arglist)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 314, in
Main
    Security.initialize(action or "mirror", cmdpairs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Security.py", line 53, in
initialize
    set_security_level(action, cmdpairs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Security.py", line 120, in
set_security_level
    rdir = tempfile.gettempdir()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/tempfile.py", line 262, in gettempdir
    tempdir = _get_default_tempdir()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/tempfile.py", line 208, in _get_default_tempdir
    raise IOError, (_errno.ENOENT,
IOError: [Errno 2] No usable temporary directory found in ['/tmp', '/var/tmp',
'/usr/tmp', '/']

After some trouble shooting it appeared that the 80 gigs disk was full.

rdiff-backup is the only program running on the backup machine,
/*******************************/

I can't even log in graphically to the backup machine now, I'm stuck with
command line.

So my questions :

- Is this some sort of hdd leak in rdiff-backup?

- How can I regain the wasted disk space (I have no idea of how to do that under
linux)?

- How can I indicate to rdiff-backup that it should use /home/tmp (where there
450Gigs of free space) as tmp dir?

Any help welcome