Re: [BackupPC-users] Restore to file system?

[Paul F. <pg...@fo...>]

 > Actually no - I specifically don't want to go though a tar/untar step
 > because for some reason on my FreeBSD 5.4 box BackupPC_tarCreate has a
 > memory leak that causes it to fail after a few thousand files.   I was
 > looking for a way round that bug.

you're probably already way on top of this, but a bug in
BackupPC_tarCreate that was suspected to be a memory leak turned
out (sometime within the last month) to be a perl typo in the
routine that writes the tar archive.

so, are you sure it's a memory leak?  

okay, i just went and checked my mail archives, and see from your
original symptoms that it does indeed look a whole lot like a
memory leak, but it's probably worth trying the fix anyway, if
you haven't already done so.  (it's easy:  at line 230 in
BackupPC_tarCreate, change "my $fh = @_;" to "my ($fh) = @_;".)

paul
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 paul fox, pg...@fo... (arlington, ma, where it's 82.0 degrees)