Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:

> I'm not sure how much it will help, especially if you are using a
> recent version of rsync that uses memory more efficiently. The rsync
> problem that is usually encountered on this list is when backing up
> BackupPC itself due to the unusually large number of hard links. I
> would expect HOME directories to have few hard links and that memory
> usage would not be limiting.
>
> Of course try it and see... and report back...

What I did this afternoon was remove the /export directory and did a full
backup. It took about 45 minutes for approximately 20 GB of files. I
reenabled the server and added each directory in /export to the config
file. I will see what happens tomorrow when it runs tonight.


-- 
Jeremy Mann
jeremy AT biochem.uthscsa DOT edu

University of Texas Health Science Center
Bioinformatics Core Facility
http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu
Phone: (210) 567-2672


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