Re: Memory consumption for rsync -axv --delete

2016-03-25 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you were using --link-dest to make multiple backups you wouldn't need --delete because the target is always a new empty directory (with - --link-dest pointing to the previous backup run). So, you get the benefit of having multiple backups to

Re: Memory consumption for rsync -axv --delete

2016-03-25 Thread John Long
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 09:54:14AM +, John Long wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using rsync for many years and never had any kind of problem. > Lately I am running out of RAM trying to do an incremental backup to a box > that only has 2G of RAM. The entire directory structure I'm mirroring is >

Re: Memory consumption for rsync -axv --delete

2016-03-25 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 25 Mar 2016, John Long wrote: > > I have been using rsync for many years and never had any kind of problem. > Lately I am running out of RAM trying to do an incremental backup to a box > that only has 2G of RAM. The entire directory structure I'm mirroring is > about 200G of files. A

Memory consumption for rsync -axv --delete

2016-03-25 Thread John Long
Hi, I have been using rsync for many years and never had any kind of problem. Lately I am running out of RAM trying to do an incremental backup to a box that only has 2G of RAM. The entire directory structure I'm mirroring is about 200G of files. A minority of subdirectories have many files. Is