Yves Trudeau wrote:
> Hi,
> I am experimenting with BackupPC 3.0.0 Beta1 and I have a strange
> behavior. I try to backup a rsync share with 200k files (20 GB) and I
> got a "Out of memory!" error. It is strange, I have 1 GB of RAM and 2
> GB of swap. It looks like BackupPC is not writing to disk, the memory
> fills at the rate of the Internet connection. Since I am new to
> BackupPC, maybe there is something obvious I miss. Any clues?
Rsync sends the entire directory listing first with a certain amount
of per-file overhead before both sides walk through the list to
transfer differences. If you can break the run into smaller
subdirectories it should help - or use a different transfer
method.
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