Thanks. Changing the environmental variable has solved that issue.
It ultimately required 13GB of free space to create a 2GB backup file.
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:19 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
> Farhan Malik wrote:
>>
>> That sounds right. The error I get from the software is 2009/12/25
>> 10:21:40.812: [00001EA8][ThreadBackupRestore] Restore Error: pg_dump:
>> [tar archiver] could not write to output file: No space left on device
>>
>> Is there a way to have postgre put those large temp files on a
>> different drive? I only have 4GB free on my C: drive and once the
>> temp files go over that I get an out of space error. I have tons of
>> free space on other drives, including the one where I am asking that
>> the final backup.zip file goes.
>>
>> As for changing the backup to a custom format, I will pass that on to
>> the developer of the software.
>>
>
> wild guess says, the value of the TEMP environment variable when the backup
> software is started will determine the path of where that temporary file is
> written. In MS Windows this usually defaults to %USERPROFILE%\Local
> Settings\Temp\
>
>
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