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[weronika <patena@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

When attempting a full backup, I get the error message "Not enough free
space in the target directory for the planned backup (free: 922736 MiB
380 KiB, required: 1327295 MiB 489 KiB 802)".  However, when I freed up
more space and ran the backup, it only took up 444G of space (according
to sudo du -sh).

In essence, this requires me to keep about 1TB of free space on my
backup drive for no reason - sbackup doesn't actually use it, but it
won't run unless all the space is there.

I have gzip compression enabled for the backups, with no splitting into
chunks.

Running Ubuntu 10.10, with sbackup 0.11.3 installed from the default repository.
(this was not a problem in Ubuntu 10.04 or earlier with previous sbackup versions)

** Affects: sbackup
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/702121

Title:
  inflated estimate of free space needed for backup