On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 20:24 -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote at about 07:40:20 -0600 on Wednesday, February 1, 2012: > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Kimball Larsen <quang...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Do any > > >> have local time machine backups that might be included? > > > > > > No, time machine is on external drives, specifically excluded from > backups. > > > > It might be worth checking that the excludes work and the links that > > make it show on the desktop aren't being followed. > > > > >> Or > > >> directories with very large numbers of files? > > > > > > This I can check on. What is considered "very large numbers of files"? > More than 1024? More than 102400? > > > > It would be relative to the amount of RAM available - probably millions. > > I have no trouble backing up half a million files on a system with > just 512MB. Surely, if you have high-powered relatively new PCs you > will have many 4+ Gigabytes so it is unlikely that RAM swapping will > be the problem. Plus any >3.0 version of rsync uses RAM quite > efficiently.
I find that the speed of the underlying storage is more of a factor than the ram or cpu limits -- Tim Fletcher <t...@night-shade.org.uk> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ 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/
