https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7885
giampaolo ferradini <giampaolo.ferrad...@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #2 from giampaolo ferradini <giampaolo.ferrad...@gmail.com> 2011-03-08 07:48:01 UTC --- (In reply to comment #1) > Assigning special meaning to /media differs by OS, and is not something that > rsync should handle. A backup script that is going to use rsync should > definitely check if the path it is going to use is properly mounted first. > > Not overflowing a destination disk is a difficult problem to handle in an > efficient manner, since (1) we don't know how much space we need when we > start, > (2) other processes could be using space during our run, making an initial > check inaccurate, (3) block sizes inefficiencies and directory-space > requirements are hard to compute, and (4) the destination tree may be split > over multiple volumes. One potential solution might be to have a command-line > option that would tell rsync to check specific mount points at specific > intervals and exit if below a given percent. However, such a check idiom > might > be better written as a helper script that could be used to run rsync, > regularly > check the destination filesystems via df, and kill rsync should space > requirements diminish below desired levels. If someone would like to write > such a helper script, I'd be glad to include it in the contrib directory. thank you for your reply, and sorry for my late reply to it. unfortunately i am definitely too unexperienced to write that kind of script. but if you have examples or references for the single bits, i'd certainly be willing to play with it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.samba.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html