Re: [BackupPC-users] Need to speed up tar method

[Jeffrey J. K. <bac...@ko...>]

error403 wrote at about 09:04:29 -0400 on Wednesday, July 1, 2009:
 > 
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I had troubles using the rsync(d) method (crashed my server) so I used a workaround: create a sshfs mount and "locally" backup its files.  To prevent empty backups, I changed the ping command to ssh user@hostname whoami to emulate a response if successful, or return no ping if not connected. I figured that out the long way because I had a few empty backups (the mounting directory was empty).

I still think you need to figure out why 'rsync' is crashing your
server. Rsync/rsyncd is generally faster, more efficient, and more robust
than the tar method.

Also rsync is pretty darn well tested and stable so if it is crashing
"your server" there may well be something else more fundamentally
broken. Even if rsync runs out of memory, it should still fail
gracefully and not crash the server.