BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Out of memory, backuppc_dump with rsyncd

2014-05-07 09:07:41
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Out of memory, backuppc_dump with rsyncd
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: pmaladjian AT hilaire DOT fr
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 08:06:30 -0500
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Philippe MALADJIAN
<pmaladjian AT hilaire DOT fr> wrote:
>>>>
>>> My backuppc server a 6Go of RAM, I've 118 751 files for 9,1Go of data to
>>> save.
>>>
>> Rsync will send the entire directory tree to the server before both
>> systems walk the lists for the comparison, so it does take some
>> memory,  but your numbers look reasonable.  Just guessing - could the
>> target system have some other filesystems mounted or perhaps have
>> filesystem corruption or directory links that loop infinitely?
>>
> My structure is :
>
> +-------------+                               +-----------------+
> | backuppc | <-- rsyncd ---   | saved server |
> +-------------+                               +-----------------+
> |                                                           |
>       NFS (ext3)                                   NFS (ext3)
>              |                                                           |
>   +------------+ +-------------------------------------+
>    | /backup |                                 | /www/dev/ on NetApp NAS |
>   +------------+ +-------------------------------------+
>
> I do not think that will be a loop because the timeout occurs randomly and
> never on the same file or folder.

Is backuppc walking into the .snapshot directories on the netapp?
Try a 'find . |wc -l' on the path rsyncd exports to get some idea of
the number of directory entries it sees and how long it takes.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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