Les Mikesell wrote at about 07:40:20 -0600 on Wednesday, February 1, 2012:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Kimball Larsen <quangdog AT gmail DOT com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Do any
> >> have local time machine backups that might be included?
> >
> > No, time machine is on external drives, specifically excluded from backups.
>
> It might be worth checking that the excludes work and the links that
> make it show on the desktop aren't being followed.
>
> >> Or
> >> directories with very large numbers of files?
> >
> > This I can check on. What is considered "very large numbers of files"?
> > More than 1024? More than 102400?
>
> It would be relative to the amount of RAM available - probably millions.
I have no trouble backing up half a million files on a system with
just 512MB. Surely, if you have high-powered relatively new PCs you
will have many 4+ Gigabytes so it is unlikely that RAM swapping will
be the problem. Plus any >3.0 version of rsync uses RAM quite
efficiently.
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