[TriLUG] Failure Copying Large Amounts of Data

Glenn Starling multifacetedguy at gmail.com
Fri Apr 16 13:14:42 EDT 2010


Do you have sufficient swap file space for the copy program to use as it
does it's work?

-- Glenn

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:10 PM, John Broome <jbroome at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:22, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> wrote:
> > On Friday 16 April 2010 09:29:50 boyle at laue.chem.ncsu.edu wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have a problem copying > 90 GB of data between file systems.  Here is
> >> the context:
> >
> > This doesn't answer your question, but perhaps might give you some new
> ideas.
> >
> > I use incremental rsync backups:
>
>
> So does the original poster:
>
> >>sending incremental file list
> >>x08223.tar.gz
> >>x08229.tar.gz
> >>rsync: mkstemp "/media/backup2/shultz/.x08223.tar.gz.hWl4tB" failed: No
> space left on device (28)
> >>rsync: mkstemp "/media/backup2/shultz/.x08229.tar.gz.SRyRYE" failed: No
> space left on device (28)
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