Re: [Duplicity-talk] Keep running out of space on restore

[Monte Milanuk]

On 12/13/2012 01:32 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> be aware: duplicity needs 2 times the space of the (biggest) file you
> want to restore in TMP plus some volumes (see volume size in
> manpage)
>
> due to a bug (fixed in 0.6.20) 2 the 2 times file restored tempfiles
> did not honor this setting correctly. it used the posix tmpfile()
> routine.

Okay... something else must be wrong here.  I (finally) got the files 
extracted to the storage space, and have been browsing through them. 
Everything appears to be as it should... which means there are *no* big 
files.  I wasn't sure, so I didn't say anything before.  Couldn't 
remember if I had a couple large multi-GB VM images or iso images 
lurking in here, but I thought I had already migrated that sort of thing 
to a separate (larger) drive.  Turns out I was right. '

The largest individual file was approx. 600MB (a CD iso image) and the 
whole backup was approx. 2.2GB.  The volume size for duplicity was 25MB, 
as per default.

But it still somehow managed to fill up approx. 10 or 11 GB worth of 
temp space on the root partition.

Thats a heck of a lot more than 2x the largest file restored plus enough 
for another volume or two.