Steve writes: > I'm having trouble backing up localhost, and have traced it down to this: > > Out of memory during "large" request for 16781312 bytes, total sbrk() is > 354103296 bytes at /d/3/backup/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/FileZIO.pm line 191. > > So... I assume that means it choked trying to compress something really big, > but I thought ZIO had protections against that sort of thing, and did > compression in smaller chunks or something. Is there some way to tweak its > handling of expensive compressions, or to get it to note the error and still > proceed to back up everything else instead of aborting the backup?
Yes, FileZIO does make sure it doesn't use too much memory. It is likely most of the rest of the usage is the entire file list that rsync (and File::RsyncP) keeps in memory. You could add more memory or swap, split the backup into several pieces, or switch to tar for localhost. Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
