Hi, I guess this is more of an rsync question, but does involve Dirvish too.
I am running Dirvish on an NSLU (#1)to backup various clients. I have about 12 vaults. One is a backup of another NSLU (#2) with debian on it. So I backup the complete Debian system minus /dev /proc etc. That works OK and gives me about 17,000 files. Backup with dirvish takes a couple of minutes. Dirvish keeps around 15 copies of this system (#2) around, of course using Hard links as expected. The other Debian NSLU (#2) has a big hard disk, and every once in a while I rsync the vaults dirs of the NSLU (#1) to NSLU (#2) so as to give me a second copy of the backups. This takes at least one hour to complete as rsync uses all available memory plus about 60-70MB of swap. I assume this is just required for the file list sent by NSLU (#1), which must have about 255K entries. Apart from splitting the vault into smaller parts of the system, any ideas how to reduce the memory overhead? Maybe its just a bad idea to use dirvish to backup the complete debian system? With the other backup vaults mirroring via rsync takes a few minutes generally as there are not too many changes. Cheers Brian _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
