[Rdiff-backup-bugs] [bug #16809] rdiff backup uses lots of /tmp space cleaning up a failed backup

[anonymous]

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                 Summary: rdiff backup uses lots of /tmp space cleaning up a
failed backup
                 Project: rdiff-backup
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Saturday 06/10/2006 at 18:30 UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open

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Details:

I am using rdiff backup to backup a big shared volume (~500GB).  One night
the backup failed due to networking issues, and when I restarted it, I got
the message about "last backup failed, cleaning up". 

Some time later, the cleanup failed, indicating it was out of space.  My /tmp
directory only has about 8GB of free space, and apparently whatever cleanup it
was doing required much more space than that.  

It seems like a bug that cleaning up a failed backup requires much more /tmp
space than actually doing a backup (I can run the backups fine from the
remote machine to a mounted volume on my target system). Perhaps just an
option to point rdiff backup to a different place for temorary space would be
sufficient.

Thanks for a great piece of software






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