Luca Ferrari wrote:
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 22:17 chuck gelm's cat walking on the keyboard
wrote:
Luca Ferrari wrote:
Hi,
I was doing a backup of a NFS partition (about 300 MB) using zip but I
got the error:
Zip error: Out of memory (allocating temp filename)
I've tried to find some information but I was unable. Since I've used zip
to compress SMB partitions over 1 GB I don't believe that it can be a
"size" problem. I've tried to specify the temporary directory with the -b
flag, but nothing changed. On my disk I've got about 11 GB of free space,
so have you any idea or suggestion about this problem?
Thanks,
Luca
Hi, Luca:
Show us exactly what you did (the exact command line).
Show us the free space of your 'cwd' and your temporary directory.
Show us the size of the partition you are trying to backup.
Perhaps you could run 'watch -d df' on another console and see
what directory is getting 'Out of memory' or
your could run 'free -s 9' on another console to see if you
are running out of RAM memory.
Here's the command line I use:
/usr/bin/zip -r -u -y -b /tmp/backup /mnt/disco2//letizia.zip *
zip error: Out of memory (allocating temp filename)
and the memory as reported by free before and during the zipping:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256624 253180 3444 0 40412 85796
-/+ buffers/cache: 126972 129652
Swap: 1020088 16 1020072
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256624 254096 2528 0 34604 92080
-/+ buffers/cache: 127412 129212
Swap: 1020088 16 1020072
Any idea?
Luca
Yes.
Is '/tmp/backup' a directory or a regular file?
If the directory '/tmp' already exists,
try that command line, but swap '/tmp/backup' with '/tmp'.
I am guessing that the directory 'backup' does not already
exist under '/tmp' or you cannot create the directory
'/tmp/backup' because it already exists as a regular file
or you cannot write to the directory.
What is the free space of '/tmp'?
Show us the output of 'df'.
Do you have 'rights' to create files under '/tmp'?
(are you running 'zip' as 'root' ?)
Make sure that you have correct access rights to '/tmp/backup'.
HTH, Chuck
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