ckandreou <backuppc-forum <at> backupcentral.com> writes:

> 
> 
> Lately I am having problems with backing up a particular server. We increased
the swap space on unix solaris
> box and the backup was performed with following error:
> 
> 2010-03-31 05:22:37 ccdev10: Out of memory during "large" request for 16781312
bytes, total sbrk() is
> 468277248 bytes at /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/FileZIO.pm line 215.
> 2010-03-31 05:22:44 Backup failed on ccdev10 (Child exited prematurely)
> 2010-03-31 05:22:44 Running BackupPC_link ccdev10 (pid=43911)
> 2010-03-31 05:22:46 Finished ccdev10 (BackupPC_link ccdev10)
> 
> I am not sure how to address this problem. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated. 
> 
> Thanks in advance 
> 
> Chris
> 
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Do you have many files on this system? I have had something familiar where
thousands of files reside on one file system and rsync runs out of memory. Try
splitting your job up to smaller ones.

  Allen...



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