I've been reading the FAQs and man page for rsnapshot
and I'm struggling to find out what it would do in the event of the backup partition being full.
Ie. If I set the backups to run hourly, backing up to a dedicated backup partition. What happens when this partition hits 100% usage.
Does it automatically rotate/delete older backups or does it just bail out and crash?
I'm looking at "simple" backup solutions that have some kind of survivability if the backup partition ever becomes full.
Best Answer
With a default configuration (save for changing the backup location to
/smallbup
) and rsnapshot 1.3.1So in summary, rsync will return an error (12). rsnapshot does not handle that, and aborts, leaving a full filesystem: