On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:03:03PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 02/06 09:39 , Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > My backuppc pool and pc directories together have 2442024 > > > files, and 10325584 KiB of data. > > If I'm reading that correctly, that's only about 10GB of data.
Yes, but lots of files. > I once tryed syncing 100GB of backuppc pool data from one disk to > another, on the same machine, with the machine having 512MB RAM > and 2GB swap; and after a day or so, the machine ran itself out of > memory and swap, making it necessary to power-cycle it. > > I then did the copy with dd; and it only took a few hours. dd doesn't help me in the slightest; I'm trying to take a *remote* snapshot, over limited bandwidth. If backuppc can't support that at all, that's a pretty severe strike against it, although as I said it works for me just fine. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
