Michael Potter wrote: >On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:08:36AM -0700, Adam Chlipala wrote: > > >>Anyone know how to fix this rsnapshot error? If we can't get this >>half-hearted back-up stuff to work, then we should probably just disable >>it, since it causes a significant load on the system while running. >> >> > >I got errors like this once while moving a lot of data to a new >system. Rsync hogs memory and it can't deal with large directories, >although I think it has more to do with the number of files than the >data size. I worked around this by using a 'for i in ls -1 /home; do >rsync -av /home/$i /newplace; done' or some such to do one subdir at a >time. > > > Our 'rsync' invocations are made by the rsnapshot program, so it's not so easy to change how it's done. Would you classify rsnapshot's implementation choices here as a bug; i.e., is there anything we can do about this without scrapping rsnapshot?
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