My backups are failing frequently (although not every time) because my
disk gets filled with large tmp files. The tmp files are always called
something like "rdiff-backup.tmp.*" and they contain only the null
character "\0." I'm using the latest stable version of rdiff-backup,
from the Ubuntu 12.04 package.
archive@sage:~$ rdiff-backup -V
rdiff-backup 1.2.8
archive@sage:~$ find . -name 'rdiff-backup.tmp.*' -execdir ls -l {} \;
-execdir hexdump {} \;
-rw------- 1 archive archive 51846217728 Aug 12 23:08
./rdiff-backup.tmp.140
0000000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
*
c12468000
The backup doesn't fail until disk space is exhausted. No other messages
are written to my logs. I recover by manually removing the tmp file
every time this happens.
Is this a known bug? Is there a good workaround? Thanks.
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