Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup aborted (Tar exited with error 512 () status)

[Dave W. <dwi...@dt...>]

On 9/18/2012 5:07 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 09/18 02:55 , Dave Williams wrote:
>> Ran the following command and that worked just fine:
>> tar -cvf - /photos/Laptop1 |cat >/dev/null
>>
>> 2012-09-13 14:49:34 incr backup started back to 2012-08-11 22:55:43
>> (backup #614) for directory /photos/Laptop1
>> 2012-09-13 15:50:26 Got fatal error during xfer (Tar exited with
>> error 512 () status)
>> 2012-09-13 15:50:31 Backup aborted (Tar exited with error 512 () status)
>
> Have you tried running BackupPC_dump by hand?
>
> As the backuppc user, on the linux command line, run:
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -f -v host.example.com
>
> (substitute the name of the host as it appears in the BackupPC web interface
> for host.example.com).
>
Thanks for that.  Now I can see what happened. I ran out of space to 
complete the backup :(  Not great but not much I can do about it right 
now apart from buying a larger drive.  It's a shame though that backuppc 
can't report that it ran out of space.  Once the job completes it 
deletes the new directory and thus frees up the space again, so it's 
hard to determine that space was the issue.