Re: rsync and swapping

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on 1/30/2008 5:24 AM Jerry Geis spake the following:
hi all,

I use rsync to copy/backup ALL my stuff to another disk.

When I run this seems like my machine (4 GIG ram centos 5.1)
now begins to swap out more programs. Is there a way to reduce
that swapping? I am running with echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

I simply mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/backup; mkdir /mnt/backup/month.day.year
then rsync -a /home /mnt/backup/mon.day.year

This is approximately 102G of data.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Jerry
Rsync's main benefit is on backups of changed files. dumping to a new destination every time makes rsync less efficient than just about every other option. Now if you made the new directory, and hardlinked the old stuff to the new directory, then rsync would shine.

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