Re: how to reduce rsync system usage

2005-05-29 Thread dtra
On Fri 27 May 2005, dtra wrote: when i try this, it says unable to find rsyncd.conf nice -n 19 rsync -a --rsh="ssh -l remoteuser -c blowfish" rsyncuser example.com::rsync_module/files /path/to//bak// Wayne's point of saying "use a daemon" (to paraphrase a bit :-) i

Re: how to reduce rsync system usage

2005-05-26 Thread dtra
Wayne Davison wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 06:16:03PM +1000, dtra wrote: yes, i'm using a the daemon on the host the rsync call is nice -n 19 rsync -a [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/to/vhosts/site /path/to/bak/ That call does not make use of a daemon -- that would require :: inste

Re: how to reduce rsync system usage

2005-05-26 Thread dtra
Wayne Davison wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 05:06:24PM +1000, dtra wrote: does running the daemon with nice affect the receiving server? cos that's where the main problems lie Obviously, using nice on the daemon affects just the daemon (if you're using a daemon -- you st

Re: how to reduce rsync system usage

2005-05-26 Thread dtra
Wayne Davison wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:52:41AM +1000, dtra wrote: the cron job uses nice -19 rsync [...] sorry, one more thing, on the server we are getting the files from, max connections is set to 1 Are you connecting to an rsync daemon or not? If you are running a daemon

Re: how to reduce rsync system usage

2005-05-25 Thread dtra
Andrew Gideon wrote: dtra wrote: but rsync still takes up more resources than we want it to it takes up to 95% (fluctuating) cpu load and a fair bit of memory too the cron job uses nice -19 rsync but that doesn't seem to do anything, is there anyway to make it use like 5% cpu or some

Re: how to reduce rsync system usage

2005-05-25 Thread dtra
dtra wrote: hi all we're using rsync to backup our web server at the moment using it in a cron job the server we are using to receive all the sync files is a live but not heavily used linux machine but rsync still takes up more resources than we want it to it takes up to 95% (fluctu

how to reduce rsync system usage

2005-05-25 Thread dtra
hi all we're using rsync to backup our web server at the moment using it in a cron job the server we are using to receive all the sync files is a live but not heavily used linux machine but rsync still takes up more resources than we want it to it takes up to 95% (fluctuating) cpu load and a f

Re: does rsync run as a service?

2005-05-18 Thread dtra-fyf
Jay Strauss wrote: dtra wrote: hi all sorry for the question, but i can't seem to find information on this i'm a linux novice, we are looking to do web server backups i'm using redhat 9, rsync 2.6.4 (among others, rhel3 as well) but is rsync always checking for changes or does i

does rsync run as a service?

2005-05-17 Thread dtra
hi all sorry for the question, but i can't seem to find information on this i'm a linux novice, we are looking to do web server backups i'm using redhat 9, rsync 2.6.4 (among others, rhel3 as well) but is rsync always checking for changes or does it only run when invoked from the command line (if t