Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

Marcelo Roccasalva wrote:

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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

IMHO, rsync is overkill here. I would:

mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/backup; mkdir /mnt/backup/month.day.year cd /home;find . | cpio -vdump /mnt/backup/mon.day.year

Rsync will be much, much faster on the 2nd and subsequent runs when it only has to copy the changed files.