Hello, First things I'm thinking of is : 1. Do you have inside your backup tree some links that point outside the filesystem ? (ie. some mounted folder) If so, add the -x flag (don't cross filesystem boundaries) 2. Do you have some hard links inside your tree that may create recursive loops ? If so, try with the -H flag too (preserve hard links) That would lead to -xHaze 'ssh ...'
Greg On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Ben Oswald <benosw...@benoswald.de> wrote: > Hey, > > I'm using rsync to backup my server but there is a problem because > rsync is using very huge amounts traffic. But first to the setup. The > server I backup has 4GB of data and I use the following command to > backup this data. /usr/bin/rsync -aze 'ssh -i /root/.ssh/backup.key -l > backupuser' --rsync-path='sudo rsync' --delete --exclude-from=ex.list > $SRC $TRG > > The problem is that the traffic generated to backup these 4GB of data > is often (yes not every time I backup) up to 200GB and more if I don't > stop the process. Rsync it self is showing me not more than 4GB of > transmitted data at the end of the rsync call. > So is there a known reason for this behaviour of rsync and if yes how > can I solve this problem? > > Best regards, > > Ben > -- > Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >
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