[CentOS] rsync and swapping

Wed Jan 30 16:14:38 UTC 2008
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr>


Marcelo Roccasalva wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2008 11:24 AM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:
>> 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
> 
> 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

how about cp -a ?