nsrdb2rlog => Initialized session but failed to get object : due to file system full

when using nsrdb2rlog to retrieve logfiles from another host on a system, make sure the directory you write to is not full , all you get is a generic error which does not point to the file system full
nsrdb2log -a <database name> -C logchain -d <destination> -E last logfile -N <node/member/partition number> -S start logfile -s <networker server>
with the logfiles stripped of extension.LOG and prefix S000..

Initialized session but failed to get object

in my case this was the home folder of the instance owner of the instance I restored into...