dtra wrote: > hi all > > we're using rsync to backup our web server at the moment using it in a > cron job > the server we are using to receive all the sync files is a live but > not heavily used linux machine > but rsync still takes up more resources than we want it to > it takes up to 95% (fluctuating) cpu load and a fair bit of memory too > > the cron job uses nice -19 rsync > but that doesn't seem to do anything, is there anyway to make it use > like 5% cpu or something? > > thanks > dave > sorry, one more thing, on the server we are getting the files from, max connections is set to 1 but when i go to top on the backup server, i can see several instances of rsync running eg. every twenty minutes a new rsync starts running that's not how it's meant to work, does anyone know how i can make it so that if one rsync instance is still going, then the next one shouldn't start up?
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