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 -- Marcelo "¿No será acaso que ésta vida moderna está teniendo más de moderna que de vida?" (Mafalda)