Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup when disk is full (was: Re: Trace when listing backup and not enough permissions)

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:24:36AM -0500, Charles Duffy wrote:
> Frederik wrote:
> >Actually, rdiff-backup is a disaster in dealing with full disks:
> >looking at the size of rdiff-backup-data, a lot of space is used by
> >old increments. Unfortunately, rdiff-backup --remove-older-than fails
> >because no more disk space is available! So this leaves me with a
> >chicken and egg problem: I have to make free space, but to free space,
> >I have to remove old increments, which is impossible because the disk
> >is full :-(
> 
> This is a good reason to have rdiff-backup run as a non-root user under 
> normal conditions (such that when doing administrative commands as root, 
> your root-only buffer on the drive [you've left that turned on in the 
> filesystem options, right?] is available to allow the working space needed).

Don't tell me you're not using LVM?

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