I have a lot of space on my hard disk, however this is the output of the log file (most of the files are not backed up) :
Simple Linux Backup Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Steven J. Rosen
Version 0.3.2-182
Beginning system backup at 2008-02-09 102001
Starting backup in directory '/'
Full backup last performed about 13919 day(s) ago.
Performing full backup
Copying files...
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
gzip: stdout: No space left on device
Done collecting and compressing files; return code 141.
Done!
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Simple Linux Backup first writes the backup file to a temporary directory on your hard drive, before moving the backup file to the target device/directory. What's happening is that the disk partition containing your temporary directory is filling up.
The easiest way to solve this is to specify a different temporary directory. In the Simple Backup Configuration Program, on the Advanced Options page, change the "Directory for temporary files" option. By default, it uses the "/tmp" directory; change it to a directory on a partition with more space. For example, on my system, I use a directory called "/home/steve/tmp" off of my home directory, because the disk partition for "/home" has much more space.
To find out how much space each partition has, run the command "df -h" from a terminal window.
Let me know if this solves your problem.
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I have a lot of space on my hard disk, however this is the output of the log file (most of the files are not backed up) :
Simple Linux Backup Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Steven J. Rosen
Version 0.3.2-182
Beginning system backup at 2008-02-09 102001
Starting backup in directory '/'
Full backup last performed about 13919 day(s) ago.
Performing full backup
Copying files...
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
gzip: stdout: No space left on device
Done collecting and compressing files; return code 141.
Done!
Simple Linux Backup first writes the backup file to a temporary directory on your hard drive, before moving the backup file to the target device/directory. What's happening is that the disk partition containing your temporary directory is filling up.
The easiest way to solve this is to specify a different temporary directory. In the Simple Backup Configuration Program, on the Advanced Options page, change the "Directory for temporary files" option. By default, it uses the "/tmp" directory; change it to a directory on a partition with more space. For example, on my system, I use a directory called "/home/steve/tmp" off of my home directory, because the disk partition for "/home" has much more space.
To find out how much space each partition has, run the command "df -h" from a terminal window.
Let me know if this solves your problem.
I have changed to a new temp folder inside my home directory and now all is working fine!