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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080130/173a8613/attachment-0005.sig>