Les Mikesell wrote:
> Richard Hansen wrote:
>> Apparently not -- both of my clients already have rsync 3.0.5 installed, 
>> yet rsync is causing them to run out of memory.  The clients have 4 to 6 
>> million (largely redundant) files each.  It appears that I need the 
>> incremental-recursion feature of protocol 30 to back up this many files.
> 
> If they are grouped in several subdirectories, you could break the 
> backups into separate runs.  If they are all in one directory, even 
> protocol 30 probably won't help.

The files are in several subdirectories.  I was contemplating breaking 
up the run, but there's a complication:  The set of subdirectories 
(underneath the only directory where it makes sense to split up the run) 
changes over time.  It's a slow change, so maybe I can keep a sharp eye 
out and manually adjust RsyncShareName as subdirectories are added and 
removed (blech).

> Using tar as the xfer method would avoid the issue with the tradeoff 
> that you use more bandwidth for full runs and don't reflect changes 
> quite as accurately in increments.

I've switched to tar for now, and I'm hoping that it will prove to be an 
adequate solution.

Thanks for your help,
Richard

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