Re: [rdiff-backup-users] --check-destination-dir taking a very long time

[Patrik Dufresne]

Hum, this is strange. It should not fail with a "no space left on device".
Could you provide the log generate with -v9 ? Plz provide the full command
line you used.

What is the filesystem of your USB drive ?


If you try to run the backup again do you have an error?


On Mon, Sep 9, 2019, 7:33 PM Walt Mankowski, <address@hidden> wrote:

> Good idea! But unfortunately it doesn't seem to be the problem:
>
> % df -hi /backup
> Filesystem     Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
> /dev/sde1        117M   19M   98M   17% /backup
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 07:23:14PM -0400, Patrik Dufresne wrote:
> > Hello Walt, could you double check the disk space. Especially the number
> of
> > inode ? It's probably the root cause of your issue.
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019, 7:19 PM Walt Mankowski, <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > I've been running rdiff-backup to an external USB drive for years
> > > without any problems. Over the weekend my backup failed with
> > >
> > >   Exception '[Errno 28] No space left on device
> > >
> > > This is odd, since there is 1.2 TB free on the drive. I didn't see any
> > > errors in syslog, and I was able to create a new file on the drive
> > > without any problem.
> > >
> > > Thinking it might have been a USB glitch I rebooted the machine and
> > > now I'm running
> > >
> > >   rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir
> > >
> > > to recover the backup directory. It was taking a very long time, and I
> > > restarted it with the -v8 hoping I might get some clue as to what it
> > > was doing. Unfortunately after spitting out some routine-looking
> > > output in the first few seconds it's now been running in silence for
> > > nearly 12 hours.
> > >
> > > It's getting CPU time and I don't see any errors in syslog, so I'm
> > > assuming that it's doing something. But I don't have any idea what
> > > it's doing, if it's working correctly, or how much longer it's likely
> > > to take.
> > >
> > > Is it normal that a regression takes this long? /backup is currently
> > > at 527 GB.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Walt
> > >
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