There were new files, I created one to force the system to back it up. 
It did not crash on that particular file, but gave the error message 
(with the cut-off file name). I tried to make subdirectories on the 
backup disk. No problem.
Filesystem is ext4.

On 06/27/2013 10:01 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Mike Bosschaert <insomniux AT gmail DOT com> 
> wrote:
>> For some reason I CAN make incremental backups (which do report errors on
>> the long directory names). But the process does not crash.
> That probably just means there aren't any new files to write there.
>
>> One detail which may be important. I use an external USB disk (2GB), mounted
>> on /home/backuppc. I have linked /var/lib/backuppc -> /home/backuppc. My
>> last full backup is of januari 2013, without any errors. The directory
>> structure has not changed significantly (the directories producing errors
>> now did exist at that time, but were fully accessible, no size-limits
>> present). The system design has not changed since then, neither have the
>> system been updated.
> What file system type is on the USB drive?
>
>> Is there a way to increase the debug reporting level to get more clues?
> Can you create the same file manually with the full path - the shell
> might give you a better error message.
>
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