On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:35:46AM +1100, Brendan Simon wrote: > So with that, I think I'll have to upgrade the RAM and increase the swap > space if I can. I'm backing up the /home partition, which has some > large source repositories, as well as user accounts, as well as the /var > partition (/var -> /home/var). I could break this down so that they are > backed up in different runs, but that's another story for another day.
I'm new to backuppc (but not to rsync) so i might be missing something. rsync uses memory roughly (exactly?) linearly based on the number of files being backed up. If you split things into different runs so that rsync won't run out of RAM, I think you will have *much* better results. Of course, adding memory will help too :) danno -- dan pritts - systems administrator - internet2 734/352-4953 office 734/834-7224 mobile ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
