Marcelo Roccasalva wrote:
>>
>> 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.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com