Fixing Rsync out of memory Issues

If you are doing rsync and you encountered this error like rsync out of memory, you may want to take a look.a this article (Rsync out of memory? Try this...). Need to add an additional parameter (--no-inc-recursive) to the rsync commands.

According to the article, the the out of memory failure occured when  rsync attempts to load all the filenames and info in to RAM at startup. For example,

# rsync -lH -rva --no-inc-recursive --progress gromacs remote_server:/usr/local

References:

1. Commonly Used rsync Arguments

Using Gadmin-Rsync on Linux Mint

Beside using Grsync found in the Rsync GUI utility - Grsync , you can also use the utility like Gadmin-Rsync to rsync. To install simply type

# apt-get install gadmin-rsync

Rsync GUI utility - Grsync

For those who wishes to use a GUI instead of the rsync command line, you will be glad to use the Rsync GUI utility - Grsync

It is neat and give you rysnc options in GUI. The only issue is that it is quite difficuly to schedule a job using Grsync.

To install on CentOS or Fedora
# yum install grsync

To install on Linux Mint,
# apt-get install grsync