I suspect that the memory problem is on the client rather than on the backuppc server. I backup one host with over 1.8 million files (50+ GB) regularly.
2006-12-10 06:20:38 full backup started for directory / 2006-12-10 15:03:03 full backup 440 complete, 1837202 files, 56809682969 bytes, 0 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 0 other) My backuppc server only has 1GB ram, but the client in question (an email server) has 4GB ram. I haven't paid attention to the amount of RAM used by rsync on the client while the backup runs. Perhaps I should... PS. rsync rocks for doing incremental backups. Does anyone know if there's a way to use tar (or something speedier than rsync) for fulls but rsync for incrementals on the same host? If not, is this a worthwhile idea, Craig? Cheers, Stephen -- Stephen Joyce Systems Administrator P A N I C Physics & Astronomy Department Physics & Astronomy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Network Infrastructure voice: (919) 962-7214 and Computing fax: (919) 962-0480 http://www.panic.unc.edu Don't anthropomorphize computers. They hate that. On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. > > -- > Les Mikesell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
