Hi,
I
have a file system that I am trying to backup with BackupPC using the
rsync Xfer method. We are running BackupPC version 3.2.1. File server
has rsync version 3.0.9. The logs show that the transfer uses protocol
28.
When we tried to run the backup, it started
successfully, and then died after around 8 hours. The only error message
that could be found was one in /var/log/BackupPC/LOG that said "out of
memory".
From what I've read this is most likely
caused by rsync running out of memory when it is building the in memory
file list. Here are the stats on the file system. It contains 924G of
data as reported by `df`. Running `find . | wc -l` reports 31983221
files. Some have suggested breaking the backup down into several runs.
This is a home folder shared via NFS, so there is no easy division here.
Is
there anything we can do to make this work with the rsync method, or is
this just too much? I'd really prefer it over tar.
Thanks,
L.
Schrock
