Hi, I have been using rsync for many years and never had any kind of problem. Lately I am running out of RAM trying to do an incremental backup to a box that only has 2G of RAM. The entire directory structure I'm mirroring is about 200G of files. A minority of subdirectories have many files.
Is there a way to do an incremental backup with --delete option that does not use as much memory? Is there a way to tell rsync to use a tempfile instead of RAM for keeping tracking of whatever it does? And would it be useful to add ignores for the subdirectories I know have many files and back them up separately? Is --delete safe to use in this case, as in does --delete with --ignore somedir/ not delete files in other target dirs that are not in the ignore path? Thanks, /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org attachments / \ Code Blue or Go Home! Encrypted email preferred PGP Key 2048R/DA65BC04 -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
