Jim Faulkner wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to backup two filesystems over SSH from a laptop to my > linux server. The first has 4 gigs of data on an ext3 filesystem, the > second has 48 gigs of data on an ntfs filesystem, mounted under linux > using ntfs-3g. > > The first filesystem is backed up successfully, but unfortunately I am > getting "[Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory" about halfway through the > backup of the second filesystem. > > Both the server and the laptop are running rdiff-backup 1.2.8, the > server is using python 2.6.5, and the client is using python 2.6.4. > The server has 8 GB of RAM, and the laptop has 2 GB of RAM. > > Here's the command line I'm using: > rdiff-backup --exclude-other-filesystems --exclude-sockets > /home/sarah/Data > bac...@remote-backup::/nfs/media/backup/bode/rdiff-backup/home-sarah-Data > > I've put a log of the backup here: > http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jfaulkne/bode-rdiff-backup.txt > > and here's the same failure when using "--terminal-verbosity 7": > http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jfaulkne/bode-rdiff-backup2.txt > > Anyone have any ideas as to what's going wrong here? > > thanks for any help, > Jim Faulkner > > _______________________________________________ > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > Wiki URL: > http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki >
Try copying the base data to dest with rsync first and then run rdiff-backup against it with --force. Cheers Gavin -- www.gnumims.org <http://www.gnumims.org> www.kromhouts.net <http://www.kromhouts.net> Everything in moderation, including moderation itself.
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