Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Full volume and rdiff-backup

[Carl Chenet]

Le lundi 07 septembre 2009 à 21:10 +0200, Carl Chenet a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> One of the Debian users reported the following issue : 
> 
> Package: rdiff-backup
> Version: 0.13.4-3
> 
> If the backup target fills up, there's no way to recover.
> --check-destination-dir and --remove-older-than both just
> complain about lack of space.
> 
> Is there a workaround for converting full rdiff-backup volumes into one
> that --check-destination-dir or --remove-older-than can be run on?
> 

As a workaround it's possible to manually remove snapshots in
rdiff-backup-data/ but I'd like to know if rdiff-backup offers something
to allow the user to use --check-destination-dir or --remove-older-than
even with a full volume.

> The full report is available at the following address:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=310442
> 

> Bye,

Bye,
-- 
Carl Chenet