On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 at 10:28, David Croll <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear rdiff-backup people, > > > Yesterday, a backup failed repeatedly. Error Number 28 - No space left > on device. The backup stopped with a specific file, a Firefox cache file > with a size of 0 bytes. > > But neither on the source nor on the destination drive, the space > actually ran out. The backup drive (a 4 TB Seagate drive with ext4), had > 75% free sectors and about 97% free inodes. The source drive uses ext4, > too. > > As I have, out of impatience, deleted all increments to use my backup > drive again, I cannot investigate further. > > > Does anybody have an idea how this could happen? > I think it is likely that it ran out of tmp space. See https://askubuntu.com/questions/9951/rdiff-backup-and-running-out-of-disk-space-something-weirds-going-on. Google is your friend... _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
