Hum, this is strange. It should not fail with a "no space left on device". Could you provide the log generate with -v9 ? Plz provide the full command line you used.
What is the filesystem of your USB drive ? If you try to run the backup again do you have an error? On Mon, Sep 9, 2019, 7:33 PM Walt Mankowski, <[email protected]> wrote: > Good idea! But unfortunately it doesn't seem to be the problem: > > % df -hi /backup > Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on > /dev/sde1 117M 19M 98M 17% /backup > > > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 07:23:14PM -0400, Patrik Dufresne wrote: > > Hello Walt, could you double check the disk space. Especially the number > of > > inode ? It's probably the root cause of your issue. > > > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019, 7:19 PM Walt Mankowski, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I've been running rdiff-backup to an external USB drive for years > > > without any problems. Over the weekend my backup failed with > > > > > > Exception '[Errno 28] No space left on device > > > > > > This is odd, since there is 1.2 TB free on the drive. I didn't see any > > > errors in syslog, and I was able to create a new file on the drive > > > without any problem. > > > > > > Thinking it might have been a USB glitch I rebooted the machine and > > > now I'm running > > > > > > rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir > > > > > > to recover the backup directory. It was taking a very long time, and I > > > restarted it with the -v8 hoping I might get some clue as to what it > > > was doing. Unfortunately after spitting out some routine-looking > > > output in the first few seconds it's now been running in silence for > > > nearly 12 hours. > > > > > > It's getting CPU time and I don't see any errors in syslog, so I'm > > > assuming that it's doing something. But I don't have any idea what > > > it's doing, if it's working correctly, or how much longer it's likely > > > to take. > > > > > > Is it normal that a regression takes this long? /backup is currently > > > at 527 GB. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Walt > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
