Les Stott wrote: >>>> I know of people who do it; but they're doing it on machines with more >>>> memory and fewer files. >>>> >> Just add lots of swap. >> >> I was able to rsync an archive with several million files on a machine >> with just 256 MB RAM; it had several gigabytes of swap. >> >> >> > Out of curiosity how long did it take and how big was the entire data > size on the first run? did it eat up all the cpu time when running?
As I remember, it took a couple of hours; but I was copying from one HDD to another. It was about 80 GB or so, full of hardlinks. The machine was pretty responsive, but I had to increase the swap size several times and start from scratch again. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
