On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 20:24 -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> 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.

I find that the speed of the underlying storage is more of a factor than
the ram or cpu limits

-- 
Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk>


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