On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:42:17PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>In article <20070222152148.GE5685@run.galis.org>,
>George Georgalis <george@galis.org> wrote:
>>I have 89 hardlink based snapshots, consisting of a date named
>>prefix directory and some 500,000 files below each prefix. no
>>prefix is over 36GB, but through the use of hardlinks, all the
>>snapshots combined use no more than about 38Gb.
>>
>>Presently they are on a linux reiserfs, and I'm trying to get them
>>over to a NetBSD 3.1 UFS2 partition. rsync with -H, fails with
>>not enough memory, the system has 6Gb RAM. I don't see a preserve
>>hardlinks option with tar.
>>
>>is there another program that can manage the transfer?
>
>I think that tar preserves hard links. Another option is rdist6, but
>it will probably crap out too.

okay, I'll try tar later, for now the ulimit setting both memory
size and locked memory to unlimited seems to have gotten me over
the problem part.  I wasn't expecting ulimit issues as root...

// George


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