Hi Richard,
Richard Hansen wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Richard Hansen wrote:
>>> Apparently not -- both of my clients already have rsync 3.0.5 installed,
>>> yet rsync is causing them to run out of memory. The clients have 4 to 6
>>> million (largely redundant) files each. It appears tha
Hi,
Richard Hansen wrote on 2009-08-14 14:36:06 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync
clients run out of memory]:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > [...]
> > If they are grouped in several subdirectories, you could break the
> > backups into separate runs. If they are all i
Richard Hansen wrote:
>>> The clients have 4 to 6
>>> million (largely redundant) files each.
>> Using tar as the xfer method would avoid the issue with the tradeoff
>> that you use more bandwidth for full runs and don't reflect changes
>> quite as accurately in increments.
>
> I've switched
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Richard Hansen wrote:
>> Apparently not -- both of my clients already have rsync 3.0.5 installed,
>> yet rsync is causing them to run out of memory. The clients have 4 to 6
>> million (largely redundant) files each. It appears that I need the
>> incremental-recursion feat
Richard Hansen wrote:
>
>>> I'd prefer to use rsync. Is there any chance BackupPC could use a newer
>>> version of File::RsyncP that supports rsync protocol version 30?
>> This has been discussed many times on the list - please see the
>> archives.
>
> I'd appreciate any pointers to previous di
>> I'm using BackupPC 3.1.0 and I'm having problems with rsync clients
>> running out of memory and crashing (the Linux kernel's OOM-Killer is
>> unleashed, wreaking all sorts of havoc). Apparently this is a known
>> problem if a lot of files are being synced and one or both ends of the
>> rsy
Richard Hansen wrote at about 16:52:01 -0400 on Thursday, August 13, 2009:
> I'm using BackupPC 3.1.0 and I'm having problems with rsync clients
> running out of memory and crashing (the Linux kernel's OOM-Killer is
> unleashed, wreaking all sorts of havoc). Apparently this is a known
> pro
I'm using BackupPC 3.1.0 and I'm having problems with rsync clients
running out of memory and crashing (the Linux kernel's OOM-Killer is
unleashed, wreaking all sorts of havoc). Apparently this is a known
problem if a lot of files are being synced and one or both ends of the
rsync transfer is
