Re: [Duplicity-talk] temporary space usage?

[Timothee Besset]

Peter Schuller wrote:

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>> Going to run those again and explicitely skip /tmp to confrm, but it
>> looks like some pretty basic recursion problem got overlooked?
>>     
>
> Hmm, are you trying to backup a file system tree which does in fact
> contain your temporary directory? I could be wrong (haven't
> specifically checked) but I'm pretty sure there is no explicit attempt
> in duplicity to detect this fact.
>
>   

Yeah that is what is happening, and duplicity doesn't detect when it
starts backing up it's own temporary area. That problem has likely
caused extra/spurious data from duplicity's temporary folder to be
backed up .. it doesn't get into some infinite loop, but it certainly
starts backing up it's own stuff for a few cycles. I think the problem
is showing on a specific server now because it is at 80% full and the
remaining temporary space is not enough to absorb the problem.

Right now my script adds an explicit --exclude /tmp but that doesn't
cover when a different temporary area is used etc., so I think this
should really be addressed in duplicity

TTimo