ckandreou <backuppc-forum <at> backupcentral.com> writes: > > > Lately I am having problems with backing up a particular server. We increased the swap space on unix solaris > box and the backup was performed with following error: > > 2010-03-31 05:22:37 ccdev10: Out of memory during "large" request for 16781312 bytes, total sbrk() is > 468277248 bytes at /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/FileZIO.pm line 215. > 2010-03-31 05:22:44 Backup failed on ccdev10 (Child exited prematurely) > 2010-03-31 05:22:44 Running BackupPC_link ccdev10 (pid=43911) > 2010-03-31 05:22:46 Finished ccdev10 (BackupPC_link ccdev10) > > I am not sure how to address this problem. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance > > Chris > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by christakisandreou <at> yahoo.com via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to abuse <at> backupcentral.com. > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- >
Do you have many files on this system? I have had something familiar where thousands of files reside on one file system and rsync runs out of memory. Try splitting your job up to smaller ones. Allen... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
