Re: Backup Failed: Insufficient Temp Space

[Leo Francisco <lists boywithwings co uk>]

Ah yes, this would make sense. I didn't make the connection with /temp
for some reason.

I only have 200mb left on my laptop's drive. Linux doesn't slow down so
I didn't notice!


Thanks for the tip
Leo




On 16/03/16 10:55, sajolida wrote:
> Leo Francisco:
> > Heya All,
> >
> > My home folder backup to an external hd is failing with the message:
> >
> > Temp space has 61018112 available, backup needs approx 68157440.
> >
> > What's temp space? I have 200GB free on the drive which is more than
> > enough. I tried unplugging the drive and restarting dejadup. Deleted a
> > few things off the drive and emptied the bin but it didn't effect the error.
> Disclaimer: I'm not a developer of deja-dup, merely a user.
>
> "Temp space" might refer to "temporary space". For example, in the
> duplicity manpage (the back end of deja-dup) I see:
>
>     --tempdir directory
>            Use this existing directory for duplicity temporary files
>            instead of the system default, which is usually the /tmp
>            directory. This option supersedes any environment variable.
>            See also ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES.
>
> Maybe you have less than 68157440 (~70MB) available in /tmp?
>
> NB: Is this list configured not to answer to the list on purpose or by
> mistake?