Re: rdiff-backup memory problems

2008-05-07 Thread David
> If you are looking for a replacement, I don't know of any that do rdiffs > besides rdiff-backup. I think that a good incremental backup would be your > best option. All incrementals (that I know of) waste space when there are large files where only a small part of the file changes. This is a

Re: rdiff-backup memory problems

2008-05-07 Thread Matthew Dale Moore
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 11:58:20 am David wrote: > Also, I don't trust rdiff-backup as much as I do rsync. It seems a bit > too complicated/fragile by comparison. Rsync is very robust, simple, > and works every time. The only reason I use rdiff-backup is because of > it's reverse delta support. I

Re: rdiff-backup memory problems

2008-05-07 Thread David
Hi there and thanks for your reply. On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Matthew Dale Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read you CLUG post. It seems like you should be able to do everything that > you want using rdiff-backup and not using your temp work directory with rsync > (which looks to be me

Re: rdiff-backup memory problems

2008-05-07 Thread Matthew Dale Moore
I read you CLUG post. It seems like you should be able to do everything that you want using rdiff-backup and not using your temp work directory with rsync (which looks to be messing things up). Also, if you are using rdiff-backup on backup1, why do you need to preserve file history on backup2?

rdiff-backup memory problems

2008-05-07 Thread David
Hi list. I've posted this problem to a few other lists over the past few days (rdiff-backup, my local LUG), but I haven't had a reply yet, so I thought I'd try here. Short version: rdiff-backup is using 2 GB of memory (1 GB RAM, 1 GB swap) on one of my backup servers. I'm using the latest Etch ve