[rdiff-backup-users] Please help, rdiff-backup consumes all /var/tmp space

[remi . delmas . 3000]

Hi all,

I'm (still) facing this problem that rdiff-backup (CVS head revision built under
ubuntu 6.06.1) regularly saturates the hdd on which /var/tmp is located.

I can't really manage this myself, would anyone uderstand what happens, and how
to make it work again?

error message :
When the error below occurred, rdiff-backup was handling approx 36 Gigs of data
(a very small part of it changes between two backups, less that Gig), before
rdiff-started, there was 22 Gigs of free space in /dev/hda6 where /var/tmp is
located, and when the crash occurred, 100% had been consumed...

I'm clueless



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', '/']