Hello Maarten, Am 2008-05-25 20:41:03, schrieb Maarten Vink: > Rsync tends to use a lot of memory for larger filesystems because it > loads the entire filesystem tree in memory before connecting to the > destination host. There are two ways to fix this: > > 1) Build a script that splits up the backup in several rsync runs, for > example by starting rsync for each user instead of the entire mailspool This is already done but there are 4 "archive" user which hold over 90% of the whole Mailstorage... > 2) Try rsync 3.0; it has a "quickstart" mode that starts synchronizing > files before the entire filesystem is read, saving huge amounts of > memory. Rsync 3 is available in the backports collection. Thanks for the info, I will give it a try... Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 +49/177/9351947 50, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi +33/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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