Re: [Duplicity-talk] Source of message 'Attempt 1 failed. OSError: Insufficient free space on the filesystem'

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 5:46 PM edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk
<duplicity-talk@nongnu.org> wrote:
>
> On July 11, 2024 10:45:21 PM GMT+02:00, Jeffrey Walton via Duplicity-talk 
> <duplicity-talk@nongnu.org> wrote:
>
> answering inline
>
> >Our nightly backup script is failing. According to journalctrl, we see:
> >
> >Jul 11 20:25:25 localhost daily-backup[11141]: Wiki database size is
> >78,637,039 bytes
> >Jul 11 20:27:00 localhost daily-backup[11323]: Local and Remote
> >metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
> >Jul 11 20:27:00 localhost daily-backup[11323]: Last inc backup left a
> >partial set, restarting.
> >Jul 11 20:27:00 localhost daily-backup[11323]: Last full backup date:
> >Mon Jan  1 05:12:16 2024
> >Jul 11 20:27:00 localhost daily-backup[11323]: RESTART: The first
> >volume failed to upload before termination.
> >Jul 11 20:27:00 localhost daily-backup[11323]:          Restart is
> >impossible...starting backup from beginning.
> >Jul 11 20:28:37 localhost daily-backup[11323]: Local and Remote
> >metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
> >Jul 11 20:28:37 localhost daily-backup[11323]: Last full backup date:
> >Mon Jan  1 05:12:16 2024
> >Jul 11 20:28:57 localhost daily-backup[11323]: Attempt 1 failed.
> >OSError: Insufficient free space on the filesystem.
> >Jul 11 20:29:29 localhost daily-backup[11323]: Attempt 2 failed.
> >OSError: Insufficient free space on the filesystem.
> >Jul 11 20:30:02 localhost daily-backup[11323]: Attempt 3 failed.
> >OSError: Insufficient free space on the filesystem.
> >Jul 11 20:30:34 localhost daily-backup[11323]: Attempt 4 failed.
> >OSError: Insufficient free space on the filesystem.
> >Jul 11 20:31:06 localhost daily-backup[11323]: Giving up after 5
> >attempts. OSError: Insufficient free space on the filesystem.
> >Jul 11 20:31:06 localhost daily-backup[11141]: Failed to backup VM to
> >Remote Backup Storage
> >Jul 11 20:31:06 localhost systemd[1]: daily-backup.service: Main
> >process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> >
> >My question is, is the message "Attempt 1 failed. OSError:
> >Insufficient free space on the filesystem" (and friends) coming from
> >Duplicity?
>
> yes

Thank you sir. My Google-foo was off. I could not locate a discussion
of the message.

> >And if it is Duplicity, is the message referring to the local
> >filesystem or remote filesystem?
>
> local

Oh, that is interesting. I'm putzing around the remote filesystem using sshfs.

> >Thanks in advance.
>
> 1. which duplicity version?

$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
Release:        20.04
Codename:       focal

$ duplicity --version
duplicity 0.8.12

> 2. what does 'df -h' say?

# local machine (not backup server)
$ df -h
Filesystem             Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                   938M     0  938M   0% /dev
tmpfs                  194M  680K  194M   1% /run
/dev/mapper/vg00-lv01   77G   26G   48G  35% /
tmpfs                  970M     0  970M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                  5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                  970M     0  970M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/vda1              456M  156M  266M  37% /boot
tmpfs                  194M     0  194M   0% /run/user/0

> 3. what's the output of 'duplicity collection-status ...'?

Using the sftp:// url from
<https://github.com/weidai11/website/blob/master/systemd/bitvise-backup#L178>,
the [long] output is available at
<https://cryptopp.com/cryptopp-backup.txt>.

Thanks for the help.

Jeff