I've recently installed backuppc on my backup server, and slowly started to try and backup various machines. I started with my windows laptop via rsyncd, and recently added a couple of linux servers via rsync over ssh.
I've had a lot of problems attempting to backup the windows machine, and sort of decided that it might just be a windows related problem, and asked a few questions on this list for help (and not had a reply yet). Anyway, while trying to debug why it was also having problems backing up a linux server, I noticed that the backup processes where using a LOT of memory (RAM), and that they seemed to be dying due to insufficient memory. Out of Memory: Killed process 7339 (BackupPC_dump). So, I am now wandering how to calculate the memory requirements of backuppc. The machine I am using only has 128MB RAM, but I assume that we don't need enough memory to hold the contents of the largest file, or else most people wouldn't be able to backup large files (ie, 2GB or more)... Is it based on the number of files needing to be backup up, or some combination? perhaps a certain amount of memory for each 'block' of the file that is being transferred? Any advice is appreciated... Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers Ph: +61 2 8304 0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +61 2 8304 0001 www.websitemanagers.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
