Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Another backups failure.. trying to revert fails dus to disk space

[Alan Horn]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Alan Horn wrote:

>Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:57:33 -0800 (PST)
>From: Alan Horn <address@hidden>
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] Another backups failure.. trying to revert
>    fails dus to disk space
>
>
>I'm just full of problems today :)
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>fc-ps1# rdiff-backup -l /backups/enterprise/home
>Fatal Error: Previous backup to /backups/enterprise/home seems to have
>failed.Rerun rdiff-backup with --check-destination-dir option to
>revertdirectory to state before unsuccessful session.
>fc-ps1# rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir /backups/enterprise/home
>
>/: write failed, file system is full
>Traceback (most recent call last):

[snip]

>IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device
>fc-ps1# df -lk
>Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>/dev/wd0a      274967   161352     99866    61%    /
>/dev/wd0e    27633397  1917066  24334661     7%    /usr
>/dev/wd1a    58465066 32878450  22663362    59%    /backups
>/dev/wd1b    97441787 13799128  78770569    14%    /storage
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>I assume that it needs some space in / and there isn't enough there ?
>What methods can I use to get around this ?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Al
>

Ok.. I've solved this one myself...

set $TMPDIR to point somewhere with lots of space (in my case
/storage/tmp)

I'm still curious as to what space is needed and how to precalculate that.