[rdiff-backup-users] Out of space error

[Matt Hirons]

Rdiff-backup has been working pretty well, but lately I've been having
some trouble with it.  I'm running into a problem where I get a
"Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now."
error.  When I run rdiff-backup from the command line, rdiff-backup
-v9
--print-statistics /home/ftp/upload /media/usbdisk/ftpbackup, I get
the following (sorry about the formatting):

Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Processing changed file 4425620.jpg
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Regular copying ('4425620.jpg',) to
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup.tmp.61056
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Writing file object to
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup.tmp.61056
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Copying attributes from ('4425620.jpg',) to
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup.tmp.61056
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Setting time of
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup.tmp.61056 to 1140057295
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Incrementing mirror file
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/4425620.jpg
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Touching
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/4425620.jpg.2006-02-15T03;05813;05823-05;05800.missing
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Renaming
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup.tmp.61056 to
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/4425620.jpg
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Processing changed file 4425630.jpg
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Regular copying ('4425630.jpg',) to
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup.tmp.61057
Fri Feb 17 20:55:21 2006  Writing file object to
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup.tmp.61057
Fri Feb 17 20:55:22 2006  Copying attributes from ('4425630.jpg',) to
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup.tmp.61057
Fri Feb 17 20:55:22 2006  Setting time of
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup.tmp.61057 to 1140057332
Fri Feb 17 20:55:22 2006  Incrementing mirror file
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/4425630.jpg
Fri Feb 17 20:55:22 2006  Touching
/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/4425630.jpg.2006-02-15T03;05813;05823-05;05800.missing
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
   rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
259, in Main
   take_action(rps)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
229, in take_action
   elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line
278, in Backup
   backup.Mirror_and_increment(rpin, rpout, incdir)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line
51, in Mirror_and_increment
   DestS.patch_and_increment(dest_rpath, source_diffiter, inc_rpath)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line
226, in patch_and_increment
   ITR(diff.index, diff)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py",
line 279, in __call__
   last_branch.fast_process(*args)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line
607, in fast_process
   inc = self.inc_with_checking(tf, rp, self.get_incrp(index))
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line
593, in inc_with_checking
   try: inc = increment.Increment(new, old, inc_rp)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/increment.py",
line 40, in Increment
   if not mirror.lstat(): incrp = makemissing(incpref)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/increment.py",
line 51, in makemissing
   incrp.touch()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line
815, in touch
   self.conn.open(self.path, "w").close()
IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device:
'/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup-data/increments/4425630.jpg.2006-02-15T03;05813;05823-05;05800.missing'
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file
'/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup-data/extended_attributes.2006-02-17T17;05833;05806-05;05800.snapshot.gz',
mode 'wb' at 0xb79ce728 -0x48959e94>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file
'/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup-data/file_statistics.2006-02-17T17;05833;05806-05;05800.data.gz',
mode 'wb' at 0xb7dccc38 -0x48959f54>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file
'/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2006-02-17T17;05833;05806-05;05800.data.gz',
mode 'wb' at 0xb7dccba8 -0x48962fd4>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file
'/media/usbdisk/ftpbackup/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2006-02-17T17;05833;05806-05;05800.snapshot.gz',
mode 'wb' at 0xb7dccbf0 -0x48959f74>> ignored

I am running Ubuntu 5.10 with rdiff-backup 0.13.4-3ubuntu1 from the
universe repo.  My backup device is a Maxtor OneTouch II (factory
formatted to FAT32 I think) with about 250 GB free.  When I've gotten
this error in the past, I've just deleted the destination and
recreated it, but I'd like to figure out why this is happening.

The error "No space left on device" seems weird since I have so much
space free.  Is there any chance that I'm hitting some kind of FAT32
limit?

Any ideas about what could be causing this or advice about what to
try?  Let me know if you need more info.

Thanks a lot,
Matt