On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
<chrome AT real-time DOT com> 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.
>

Try Rsync v3, it has much lower memory requirements since it builds
the file list incrementally. I used it at one company to do nightly
syncs of their ~4TB backuppc pool offsite.

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