You could probably use CIFS, NFS or sshfs. It wouldn't be as fast, but the memory requirements should be less.
Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: John Long <codeb...@inbox.lv> </div><div>Date:2016/03/25 04:10 (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: rsync@lists.samba.org </div><div>Cc: </div><div>Subject: Re: Memory consumption for rsync -axv --delete </div><div> </div>On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 09:54:14AM +0000, John Long wrote: > 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? I didn't phrase this part very well. Is --delete safe to use with --ignore, meaning will rsync avoid deleting files in the ignore path on the target side? I think the answer is probably yes but since I'm crashing the target box with --delete I don't want to have to try this too many times. Really I'm looking for a workaround to the high memory consumption so I can sync up the file trees without exceeding the small RAM capacity of the target box. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks, /jl -- 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
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