Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 05/19 12:04 , Tim Cole wrote:
>> How often do you want to backup the server?  What about using rsync to 
>> backup the pool?  I want to mirror my primary backup server to another 
>> system daily so I can switch to my backup server quickly.  I was going 
>> to use rsync for this.
> 
> Rsync memory requirements have historically been too high for this.
> I tried rsync'ing 100GB on a machine with 512MB RAM and about the same swap;
> and it crushed the box to the point where I had to power-cycle it.
> 
> Best thing to do is set up a duplicate backuppc server that independently
> backs up the hosts you want to have a redundant backup for.

These days, I'm not sure 512MB RAM and 'server' belong in the same 
sentence, but it is still hard to deal with the disk head motion needed 
to traverse and recreate all those hardlinks splattered more or less 
randomly across the disk.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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