Re: [BackupPC-users] How can I limit memory usage (RAM) of backuppc ?

2008-01-18 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dan wrote: > on linux you can install the vserver utilities (on debian/ubuntu apt-get > install util-vserver) > What is wrong with using ulimit ? in bash, I think "help ulimit" or "man ulimit" on most other (unix) systems should get you in the right

Re: [BackupPC-users] How can I limit memory usage (RAM) of backuppc ?

2008-01-18 Thread dan
on linux you can install the vserver utilities (on debian/ubuntu apt-get install util-vserver) you can set the maximum number of pages available by vlimit -c PID --rss # where # = .004 * disired MB size so vlimit -c PID --rss 1 = 40MB you can expiriment what that a little. keep in mind that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading old server

2008-01-18 Thread David Rees
On Jan 17, 2008 1:37 PM, Bowie Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a BackupPC server that I haven't touched in a while. It is currently > running version 2.1.2pl1. Since I am so far behind, are there any problems > I would run into upgrading this to the latest version? Anything in > parti

Re: [BackupPC-users] How can I limit memory usage (RAM) of backuppc ?

2008-01-18 Thread David Rees
On Jan 18, 2008 12:50 AM, KLEIN Stéphane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > are there a directive or other stuff to limit memory usage (RAM) of > backuppc ? Not really, the maximum amount of memory is more or less tied to the type of backups your are doing and the number of files being backed up. For e

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scaling BackupPC

2008-01-18 Thread Les Mikesell
Timothy J. Massey wrote: > > DRDB might help propagate the disaster in real-time. I'm not convinced > > that is desirable. > > You are correct; but that's what my second idea (replication of > individual backups) is for: *automatic* and hands-off movement of > backup data from one place to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scaling BackupPC

2008-01-18 Thread Les Mikesell
dan wrote: > A database can be an order of magnitude or more > faster than direct file access. Certain operations can be optimized differently, especially if you compare a loaded/cached dataset to the first access to a file but how can you expect a database to be faster in general than the fil

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scaling BackupPC

2008-01-18 Thread dan
Actually most modern filesystems are a lot like a database. Though the database is another level of abstraction from the hardware, there is a ton less overhead creating a file which is small on a single file basis but cumulatively with thousands or millions of files makes a big difference. This is

Re: [BackupPC-users] problem with os-x client on backuppc

2008-01-18 Thread James Peverill
Maybe I'll just move to rsync for the macs. If I use the built in version of rsync that ships with 10.4 (Tiger) will it backup all the resource fork information using the latest backuppc or do I have to do additional tweaking to get it to work? Thanks for the help! James Nils Breunese

[BackupPC-users] How can I limit memory usage (RAM) of backuppc ?

2008-01-18 Thread KLEIN Stéphane
Hi, are there a directive or other stuff to limit memory usage (RAM) of backuppc ? Thanks for your information, stephane - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008.