No error handling when temporary backups fill up disk space

[Wolfgang Silbermayr]

I tried out hubackup for my home directory where I had about 8.5 gigabytes of free space, but I wanted to backup more than that. I inserted a DVD, and the backup started fine, and created the temporary .dar files in ~/.hubackup-data.
It seems as if my disk got filled up while creating the data, because in the end, I found three .dar files in ~/.hubackup-data, the first two had a size of 4gb, the third one had about 500mb, and my disk had no more free space. The problem was that hubackup seemed to continue as normal, it tried to write the cd, although alredy the creation of the third .dar file must have failed due to lack of space.
Maybe hubackup does not check the return values of the processes it starts? I could not check this out due to my missing knowledge of python.

[Sivan Greenberg (sivan)]

Thank you for this very important bug report. I will investigate the code and provide a quick fix if possible.

I would also need some information:

 1) Which version of Ubuntu are you using?
 2) what is the version of the hubackup package installed there?

to obtain (2) please fire up a terminal (ALT+F2 , 'gnome-terminal') and do the following:
$ apt-cache show hubackup | grep Version

Many thanks!!!

[Wolfgang Silbermayr (silwol)]

It has been quite a while since I tried it, but I still remember the versions. It was a Dapper Drake installation with hubackup 0.2.