Could not back up Media data
asked 2018-10-23 21:31:47 +0200
I would like to update my system, but the backup tool fails upon reaching Media. I tried moving ~/Pictures/Camera and ~/Videos/Camera onto the SD card, but it still stops with error.
The phone is Xperia X
This is the log: sailfish_backup_2018-10-23T17-33-40Z_backup_log.txt
My sd card in [nemo@Sailfish ~]$ mount
/dev/mmcblk1p1 on /run/media/nemo/jollaSD type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks2)
/dev/mmcblk1p1 on /opt/alien/run/media/nemo/jollaSD type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered)
Also, I do not understand, why there should be no space! output of df -h: df -h.txt
Please let me know what else to post
it's very strange that mkdir failed with no space but copy before succeded:
I wonder if Done: vault-gallery [OK] or Status = UnitScriptFinished did check copy status 0.
Filip K. ( 2018-10-26 09:10:16 +0200 )editI don't understand what it tries to do in general... Does the backup tool operate inside a bind mount or is it really a directory under ~/ ? It is supposed to backup onto the SD card, would it really create the archive in home and only then move it over to the card? That does not seem optimal to me...
omichalek ( 2018-10-27 03:49:33 +0200 )editJust ran into the same problem here: My
homefolder is 71% full, and as the backup application creates an intermediate backup file in/home/nemo/.local/share/system/privileged/Backups-tmp. It copies all the files in there, compresses them and afterwards moves the backup to the destination device. This is a bit unfortunate if the home folder is already quite full. My guess why it is done like that is, because the program can't take the presence of an SD-card for granted.I worked around this issue, by moving the
Backups-tmpfolder to the SD-card (which isext4formatted BTW) and symlink it back to theprivilegedfolder. One will need to usedevel-sufor this.So something along these lines:
Cheers
Tempura San ( 2019-01-18 10:05:56 +0200 )edit