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