> Actually no - I specifically don't want to go though a tar/untar step > because for some reason on my FreeBSD 5.4 box BackupPC_tarCreate has a > memory leak that causes it to fail after a few thousand files. I was > looking for a way round that bug.
you're probably already way on top of this, but a bug in BackupPC_tarCreate that was suspected to be a memory leak turned out (sometime within the last month) to be a perl typo in the routine that writes the tar archive. so, are you sure it's a memory leak? okay, i just went and checked my mail archives, and see from your original symptoms that it does indeed look a whole lot like a memory leak, but it's probably worth trying the fix anyway, if you haven't already done so. (it's easy: at line 230 in BackupPC_tarCreate, change "my $fh = @_;" to "my ($fh) = @_;".) paul =--------------------- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 82.0 degrees) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
