Hey, I've tested your advise for a few days now but is seems like the problem isn't solved. The traffice is now lower, about 15GB per backup, but still 4 times bigger than the whole data on the server. Is there an other option of rsync I can give a try.
Regards, Ben Oswald Am Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:31:45 +0100 schrieb "Greg Deback (rsync)" <greg.deb+rs...@gmail.com>: > 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 > > -- 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
