Re: [rdiff-backup-users] restore old backups fails with gzip error -

[Hunter Matthews]

On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 14:23, Ben Escoto wrote:

> 
> A) When restoring, put tempfiles in the volume to be written.
> B) Put tempfiles where environment says (try TMPDIR, TEMP, TMP, etc.)
> 
> At first glance it seemed that Hunter was right, we should do A.
> After all, when backing up tempfiles are put in the volume we backup
> to.  However, there are 3 problems with A:
> 
> 1)  The tempfiles are written by librsync by applying diffs.  Thus
>     they must be local to the backup repository!  (It might be
>     possible to work around this, but not with any semblance of
>     bandwidth efficiency.)

2) and 3) don't do much for me. 1) however, I agree with completely.

Ok - could we perhaps just "patch" the docs then? Or a FAQ entry.
I was quite surprised at how MUCH space was needed in /tmp. A warning to
that affect and a quicky reminder about $TMP would "FIX" this bug in my
mind.

The gzip error you asked about was just gzip being obtuse and me not
seeing what the real problem was - taking gzip out didn't fix anything,
but led to a more understandable error message.


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