David Rees wrote:
>>> I think that possible workarounds would be to switch to a different
>>> backup transport other than rsync. Can anyone think of any other
>>> solutions?
>> Try carving it up into several chunks that get backed up separately.
>> Make sure your backup server is only trying to back up one host at a time.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, I am only backing up one host at a
> time. I think for now I am going to try to see if I can remove or
> archive some of the files being backed up to reduce the number of
> files in the backup.
>
> I guess the other option would be to upgrade the backup machine from
> 4gb to 8gb. It is running a 64bit Xeon which I suspect may increase
> memory requirements as well compared to a 32bit install.
If you have the bandwidth and don't mind incrementals missing old files
in their new locations under renamed directories, you could switch to tar.
--
Les Mikesell
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