On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:55:38 +0100 ashka <shellgrat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Le 10.03.2013 18:16, Les Mikesell a écrit : > > On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 4:01 AM, ashka <shellgrat...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I'm using BackupPC 3.2.1 and I'm having a lot of trouble with a > >> server : the BackupPC_dump process takes something close to 10Gb > >> of RAM. In addition, the backup process keeps dying like that : > >> > >> 2013-03-07 02:00:03 full backup started for directory / (baseline > >> backup #540) 2013-03-07 05:20:48 Got fatal error during xfer > >> (Child exited prematurely) 2013-03-07 05:20:53 Backup aborted > >> (Child exited prematurely) > >> > >> I can't do any full backup nor a incremental one. > > If you are using rsync, both ends will hold the directory contents > > of the whole tree in RAM during the transfer for comparison. If > > you have millions of files you may not have enough ram for that. > > If the files on the target are split under a few top-level > > directories, you might be able to use several separate 'shares' > > instead of starting at the root. Or you might switch to tar, > > although there are some disadvantages in tracking files correctly > > in the incrementals. > > > > Also, if you haven't already checked you might want to be sure that > > no other backups are running at the same time as the one having > > problems. > > > > > Thanks for your answer. > > >Also, if you haven't already checked you might want to be sure that > >no other backups are running at the same time as the one having > >problems. > > Is there a nice way to achieve that with BackupPC ?
You can always tell backuppc to run only one scheduled backup at a time.
From the docs:
$Conf{MaxBackups} = 4;
Maximum number of simultaneous backups to run. If there are no user
backup requests then this is the maximum number of simultaneous backups.
Have fun,
Arnold
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