Destination Out Of Space: Why?
 

Hello

I have a dedicated external drive for a daily clone of my entire drive.

The source drive is 233.64GB, with 54.35GB free. The destination is 233.85GB capacity. I backup with smart delete every day.

All was well until today. The backup failed because it ran of space on the destination. It currently shows 233.85GB, 24kb (yes, kb) free. Why?

I am mystified since the source data is only about 180GB.

What file was being copied at the time of the failure? (The Troubleshooting section of the User's Guide should be able to help...)

I think I see now
 

Aha, thanks!

RTFM! :D

I did, and now I know at least how to workaround the problem.

There's no indication in the log of which file caused the issue. But now I understand how this could have happened. I have been working with some files that are about 20GB each. So SD must have run into and copied the new versions before deleting the old ones because the names are not the same.

Thanks! But the log (below) could have been more descriptive.

Also thanks for the lightning speed of response.

Have a good evening.

| 04:30:29 PM | Info | Copy Mode : Smart Update
| 04:30:29 PM | Info | Copy Script : Backup - all files.dset
| 04:30:29 PM | Info | Transcript : BuildTranscript.plist
| 04:30:30 PM | Info | PHASE: 1. Prepare to Copy Files
| 04:30:30 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Preparing imac
| 04:30:30 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying the integrity of volinfo.database
| 04:30:30 PM | Info | volinfo.database OK
| 04:30:30 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on imac
| 04:30:30 PM | Info | Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
| 04:30:30 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for imac
| 04:30:30 PM | Info | Permissions on '/' are enabled.
| 04:30:30 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Repairing permissions on imac
| 04:30:30 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Repairing permissions on imac
| 04:30:42 PM | Info | parent directory ./Users/Shared/SC Info does not exist
| 04:32:11 PM | Info | Started verify/repair permissions on disk disk0s3 imac
| 04:32:11 PM | Info | Determining correct file permissions.
| 04:32:11 PM | Info | Permissions differ on ./private/var/log/secure.log, should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r-----
| 04:32:11 PM | Info | Owner and group corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
| 04:32:11 PM | Info | Permissions corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
| 04:32:11 PM | Info | The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume
| 04:32:11 PM | Info | Verify/repair finished permissions on disk disk0s3 imac
| 04:32:11 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Preparing Backup
| 04:32:11 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on Backup
| 04:32:11 PM | Info | Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
| 04:32:12 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for Backup
| 04:32:12 PM | Info | Permissions on '/Volumes/Backup' are enabled.
| 04:32:12 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that Backup ACL support matches imac
| 04:32:12 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Preserving Spotlight state on Backup
| 04:32:12 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Disabling Spotlight search indexing on Backup
| 04:32:12 PM | Info | PHASE: 2. Copy Files
| 04:32:12 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Copying files from imac to Backup using Smart Update
| 04:32:12 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Cloning imac to Backup
| 04:32:13 PM | Info | Copying copy files with delete using script: /Users/gareth/Library/Application Support/SuperDuper!/Copy Scripts/Standard Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
| 04:32:14 PM | Info | Loading 21 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude system temporary files.dset
| 04:32:14 PM | Info | Loading 6 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude system cache files.dset
| 04:32:14 PM | Info | Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Norton FileSaver files.dset
| 04:32:14 PM | Info | Loading 2 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Spotlight search index.dset
| 04:32:14 PM | Info | Loading 0 commands from copy script /Users/gareth/Library/Application Support/SuperDuper!/Copy Scripts/Standard Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
| 04:32:14 PM | Info | /
| 04:32:17 PM | Info | /Users
| 07:44:07 PM | Info | WARNING: Caught I/O exception(28): No space left on device
| 07:44:07 PM | Info | WARNING: Source: /Users/gareth/Desktop/TO DO LIST.doc, lstat(): 0
| 07:44:07 PM | Info | WARNING: Target: /Volumes/Backup/Users/gareth/Desktop/TO DO LIST.doc, lstat(): 0
| 07:44:07 PM | Info | Attempting to copy file using copyfile().
| 07:44:07 PM | Info | Attempting to copy file using ditto.
| 07:44:08 PM | Error | ditto: /Volumes/Backup/Users/gareth/Desktop/TO DO LIST.doc: No space left on device

Glad you figured it out, and thanks for the follow-up.