Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem FileZIO.pm (Out of memory)

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

shalauras writes:

> I'm making backups from some servers daily, but i have a problem with one server. 
> The client take up around 50G, but almost all in one directory(49G)
> 
> When i try make a backup, this give me an error when trying to copy the directory with 49G
> "Out of memory during "large" request .... /usr/...backuppc/.../fileZIO.pm"

Can you include the full error?  Also, what versions of zlib and
Compress::Zlib are you using?

How many files are in this directory?

BackupPC stores all the file attribute information for each directory
in a single file, and it needs to be able to decompress and fit that
information in memory.  However, it should only be at most a few 100
bytes per file, so one directory would have to have a huge number of
files for this to be a problem.

Another possibility is that some compressed file is corrupted and
it is causing uncompress to break.

Craig