Hi, I decided to implement BackupPC at a second location as it is really reliable and nearly perfect! ;)
Unfortunately, I'm getting errors when backing up one host. My debugging gave the following results: bash-4.1$ ./BackupPC_dump -v -f pdc.evs-nb.de cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 abc.domain.de [...] full backup started for directory / started full dump, share=/ Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root abc.domain.de /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive -x -z -v --no-inc-recursive -v --ignore-times . / Xfer PIDs are now 9933 xferPids 9933 Got remote protocol 30 Negotiated protocol version 28 Remote[2]: [sender] expand file_list pointer array to 524288 bytes, did move Remote[2]: [sender] expand file_list pointer array to 1048576 bytes, did move Xfer PIDs are now 9933,9934 xferPids 9933,9934 create d 555 0/0 4096 . >Out of memory! Parent read EOF from child: fatal error! Done: 0 files, 0 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) [...] CheckHostAlive: returning 0.156 Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely) Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0) dump failed: Child exited prematurely I started rsync manually with the same options as above and I monitored the memory consumption on the sender. This time it succeeded: total: matches=26625 hash_hits=2561895 false_alarms=35 data=5775632621 sent 2144313 bytes received 3721731504 bytes 5878257.01 bytes/sec total size is 5845056098 speedup is 1.57 [root@backup srv]# rsync uses around 112M, which should not be too much. Especially as the host hast still approx 1G of free memory. "top" is saying: 3620 root 20 0 112m 8036 952 R 69.5 0.2 3:17.46 rsync As you can see, I already added the --no-inc-recursive (reduce memory usage) and the -x (do not cross file systems) option to the rsync command. Still no go. Rsync continues telling me about out of memory. I can't believe there should be too much files in it as I store all other data except the OS itself on different partitions. /dev/mapper/vg1_pdc-root 12G 5.5G 5.5G 50% / Any other ideas how I can backup this server? I'm still wondering as this server is not a very uncommon setup- just default OS. Anyone having a clue? Greetings Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ 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/