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You are overwriting your desination here but if you still want to kill your REMOTEIP, you could try tar: ( tar -cpf - / ) | ssh -i /home/root/.ssh/id_rsa root@REMOTEIP "( cd /; tar -xvf - )" If you want to clone your system remotely, use a livecd at REMOTEIP, mount the soon to be root filesystems, use my tar command line, then chroot the new filesystem, update your bootloader and reboot your REMOTEIP.

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You cannot make a backup of you system whit rsync, your restore will not work. However if you want one of your rsync your server you have to exclude some directories. I can explay to you the better method. Thank You. Andrea Campi

Hi, The usual reason for "out of memory" when running rsync is that you are transferring a _very_ large number of files. The size of the files doesn't matter, only the total number of files. As a rule of thumb you should expect rsync to consume about 100 bytes per file in the file list. This happens because rsync builds a internal file list structure containing all the vital details of each file. rsync needs to hold structure in memory because it is being constantly traversed. It may be, you must consider a different approach to restore your backup. Drop me a line if you are intersted in my services.

Hello, My name is Rados Nikolic. I am certified Microsoft and Linux system administrator. Also, my job is coding (PSD to HTML) and Word Press development. Currently I am working at one Swedish web development company and I have a lot of experience on my field. This is the first time I am looking for a job here seriously and because of that, I do not have any passed exams or references. But, i can guarantee to you a high quality in my work. Regarding the servers, I am working with more than 25 VPS servers in my company right now. Also, I think that is better solution for you a "script-cron" backup method. I can write for you one script which makes backup (anything you want to backup) and second one which will be "transfer backup script to another server". Than, I will setup 2 cron jobs on your server, one for the backup and a few minutes latter, second one to transfer this backup to another server all any other location. All I need for this is SSH access to your server and server where you want to transfer backups. Hope that we'll start to cooperate together as soon as possible. Best regards, Rados

Make sure you are using the latest version of rsync. At least v3.0.0 or above. They improved the memory utilisation a lot in the latest versions. Dan