Sean Carolan wrote: > We are using backuppc in our production environment and it's working > well. I would like to start doing regular backups of the BackupPC > server to external USB drives. The problem we've run into is that > there are so many files, rsync dies with an 'out of memory' error. > > I thought about breaking my rsync process into smaller batches, but > the dozens of directories and subdirectories inside pc and cpool were > a bit daunting. Any suggestions? I'm curious to see how you all > handle this situation.
This is topic is discussed pretty regularly on this mailinglist. Please also search the archives. Because of the heavy use of hardlinks breaking the pool up into smaller batches is not really feasible and indeed rsync doesn't really handle very large numbers of files and hardlinks (because it needs to load the full trees in memory). I believe the most common solution is not to backup the backup server, but to use RAID (and rotate disks offsite) or use a second backup server (so each host is backed up separately by each backup server). Nils Breunese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
