Les Mikesell wrote at about 08:08:15 -0500 on Monday, March 11, 2013: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:59 AM, ashka <shellgrat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I do have millions of files, I can't really get them out the backup though. > > Those files are really important, and I excluded them temporarily just to > > see how it was working out. > > It would be sort-of interesting to see how much difference it would > make to run a 32-bit perl on the server. But the solution is > probably to break the backup up into several 'shares', perhaps with > excludes in the top level and some of the larger directories specified > separately. It is also possible to split the runs into what look > like separate hosts, but with ClientNameAlias point to the same > target. With that approach you can also skew the days that full and > incremental runs are done to reduce the backup window otherwise needed > to complete a full.
It would also be interesting to see how much memory a "naked" native rsync of the same server takes up... because from my (limited) understanding of BackupPC, other than the needs of File::RsyncP, the BackupPC_dump process itself shouldn't be consuming memory that scales with number of files. The only potential memory scaling of BackupPC itself would be with the size of an individual file that needs to be decompressed/compressed/compared but even so it should be mostly buffered... So, I think it behooves you to figure out where these 10GB are being consumed... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
