> rsync'ing the BackupPC data pool is generally recommended against. The > number of hardlinks causes an explosive growth in memory consumption by > rsync and while you may be able to get away with it if you have 20GB of > data (depending on how much memory you have); you will likely run out of > memory when your amount of data gets larger.
this issue sure comes up alot, and perhaps i should just keep quiet since i personally am in no position to do it or even go off looking for an rsync forum, nor do i have any knowledge of just how convoluted the rsync source may be to try to look at, but as a naive outsider it seems still it ought not to be such a task to have a go at the rsync source and come out with a version that sorted its xferlist into [filesystem:inode] order if preserving hardlinks, or possibly just created a simple [filesystem:inode] index of files already transfered, in replacement of whatever mangy hardlink table is in there now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/