Alex Samad wrote:

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:22:22PM +1000, Gavin wrote:

Mmm maybe or maybe just an admin flaw? I'm not an rdiff-backup developer mind just a user. I think you might find a few bits of software that crash if they run out of hard drive space. There are other alert programs that alarm when drive space is getting low. Sure it would be nice if rdiff-backup could recover and save one when this happens and it does happen. There was some discussion on list some time back about being able to specify temp space so that rdiff-backup could perform at least a roll back.

Another option is to have rdiff-backup look for a certain amount of free space (configurable) and fail if its not available Alex

Yes one could certainly put this in the wrapper script that is calling rdiff-backup.
Not sure how easily rdiff-backup could do this in a cross platform/enviroment way.

Cheers
Gavin

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