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On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 09:35 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 14 May 2010 11:21:02 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> > > I'm using the following rsync command to make the backup: |
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> > > sudo /usr/bin/ionice -c 3 /usr/bin/rsync -aAx --exclude suspend_file |
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> > > --delete --delete-excluded --partial |
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> > > --human-readable / /media/root-backup |
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> > As the rsync command is failing with disk full, files are not being |
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> > deleted. Try adding --delete-before to the options to have old files |
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> > cleaned up before copying new ones. |
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> that's what I thought initially, hence: |
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> On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 11:21 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> > I just deleted a bunch of /var/tmp and distfiles to free up some space, |
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> > and ran the rsync again. Now it looks like this: |
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> > |
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> > $ df -h |
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> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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> > rootfs 92G 81G 6.1G 93% / |
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> > /dev/sdd7 92G 89G 4.6M 100% /media/root-backup |
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> > |
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> > /dev/sda3 99M 39M 55M 42% /boot |
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> > /dev/sdd3 99M 39M 55M 42% /media/boot-backup |
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> So the last rsync didn't fail with "disk full" - it's got about 3G left |
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> for use by root. |
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> Any other ideas? thanks, |
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> -- |
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> Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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> Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still |
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> be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. |
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> -- Snoopy |
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> Have you checked to see if it is following symlinks? Possibly add a -l |
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option to "copy symlinks as symlinks" |
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