Alex Samad wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:22:22PM +1000, Gavin wrote:
>   
>> Mmm maybe or maybe just an admin flaw?
>> I'm not an rdiff-backup developer mind just a user.
>>
>> I think you might find a few bits of software that crash if they run out
>> of hard drive space.
>> There are other alert programs that alarm when drive space is getting low.
>>
>> Sure it would be nice if rdiff-backup could recover and save one when
>> this happens and it
>> does happen. There was some discussion on list some time back about
>> being able to specify
>> temp space so that rdiff-backup could perform at least a roll back.
>>     
>
> Another option is to have rdiff-backup look for a certain amount of free
> space (configurable) and fail if its not available 
>
> Alex
>   
Yes one could certainly put this in the wrapper script that is calling
rdiff-backup.
Not sure how easily rdiff-backup could do this in a cross
platform/enviroment way.

Cheers
Gavin
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