On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:55:38 +0100 ashka <shellgratuit AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
> Le 10.03.2013 18:16, Les Mikesell a écrit :
> > On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 4:01 AM, ashka <shellgratuit AT gmail DOT 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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