Les Mikesell wrote: > Andrew Libby wrote: >>> There are a lot of files on the system, and backups take >> quite a while so I upped the timeout to 40 hrs, but >> backups seem to be failing now in under 20 hrs when they >> were failing at the 20 hr mark. >> >> Any hints or suggestions are greatly apprecaiated. Other >> info that might be helpful: >> >> Both client and server are ubuntu 8.04. >> Transport is rsync. Client has about 6.5 million files. > > One possibility is a corrupted file system. Have you done an fsck > recently? That's also a lot of files to process in one run. Rsync > loads the whole directory tree in RAM and becomes extremely slow if you > go into swap. >
Hi Les, So we calculated it and the ram comes to under a gig. We've got 4G of ram. The system does not seem to swap when processing a backup. fsck also seems to be in good standing. Thanks for the suggestions, Andy -- =============================================== Tangeis, LLC Andrew Libby [email protected] www.tangeis.com 610-761-1991 =============================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ 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/
