Re: [rdiff-backup-users] trouble with rdiff-backup 1.1.16 on ubuntu intrepid after upgrading from 1.1.15

[Matthew Flaschen]

Hans-Christian Armingeon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having some troubles with rdiff-backup 1.1.16.
> 
> I hade a backup directory, which I had been using with version 1.1.15. After 
> the upgrade, I wanted to do a backup. The backup directory ran out of space.
> 
> rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir fails with the error appended below. I 
> tried this with verison 1.1.16 and 1.2.2. Could anyone give me a pointer, 
> what 
> to do?
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> Hans-Christian

If the mirror is /completely/ full, the best thing to do is probably use
 --remove-older-than.  If you are unwilling to lose that older data,
copy it elsewhere then do it, then run --check-destination-dir, then
copy it back.

Matt Flaschen