[TriLUG] Failure Copying Large Amounts of Data

[Steve Litt]

Fascinating! I have 24GB of swap, and the total of the 9 big files is 14GB. So 
if somehow two different copies, one for src and one for dst, of all 14GB were 
stored in swap, that would have indeed overloaded swap. The diagnostic test to 
rule that in or out would be to make a shellscript that copies one file at a 
time and blocks til the copy is complete. Presumably the swap would be 
released after completion of a copy.

SteveT

On Friday 16 April 2010 14:20:05 Ron Kelley wrote:
> try "swapon -s"
> 
> On Apr 16, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Good question. How would I find the size of my swap drive? See this:
> >
> > slitt at mydesk:/d/at/books/mental$ grep swap /etc/fstab
> > # swap was on /dev/sda1 during installation
> > UUID=984ca3a1-fbe2-41d1-addb-1c095c691a65 none            swap    sw
> > 0       0
> > slitt at mydesk:/d/at/books/mental$
> >
> > SteveT
> >
> > On Friday 16 April 2010 13:14:42 Glenn Starling wrote:
> >> Do you have sufficient swap file space for the copy program to use as it
> >> does it's work?
> >>
> >> -- Glenn
> >>
> >> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:10 PM, John Broome <jbroome at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:22, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> >>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> On Friday 16 April 2010 09:29:50 boyle at laue.chem.ncsu.edu wrote:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have a problem copying > 90 GB of data between file systems.  Here
> >>>>> is the context:
> >>>>
> >>>> This doesn't answer your question, but perhaps might give you some new
> >>>
> >>> ideas.
> >>>
> >>>> I use incremental rsync backups:
> >>>
> >>> So does the original poster:
> >>>>> sending incremental file list
> >>>>> x08223.tar.gz
> >>>>> x08229.tar.gz
> >>>>> rsync: mkstemp "/media/backup2/shultz/.x08223.tar.gz.hWl4tB" failed:
> >>>>> No
> >>>
> >>> space left on device (28)
> >>>
> >>>>> rsync: mkstemp "/media/backup2/shultz/.x08229.tar.gz.SRyRYE" failed:
> >>>>> No
> >>>
> >>> space left on device (28)
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