On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 01:04, Stefan May wrote: > > > > I'm running backuppc on a Debian host with 256MB RAM. With this "little" > > memory I run into trouble backing up a host. The actual memory footprint > > is 460MB, with 185MB hanging out in RAM. The rest swaps onto the disk. > > > > My question: is this a resonable behaviour? > 2006-02-07 01:00:09 Started full backup on tincan.4finger.net (pid=1795, > share=/) > 2006-02-07 02:00:01 Next wakeup is 2006-02-08 01:00:00 > 2006-02-07 02:17:36 tincan.4finger.net: Out of memory! > 2006-02-07 02:17:46 Backup failed on tincan.4finger.net (Child exited > prematurely) > > > The machine tincan.4finger.net has roundabout 30000 files, altogether > 4GB. Another BackupPC with only 128MB RAM is backing up 5 Machines and > behaves very well. The biggest host to backup has 200000 files, > altogether 30GB of data to backup.
> Any ideas? Rsync loads the entire directory into memory at both ends before starting the transfer. If that is what you are using, try switching to tar instead - or smb if the target is a windows box. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
