[Hcoop-discuss] rsnapshot problems

[Adam Chlipala]

rsnapshot, the tool that we use for automatic on-disk backup, has 
stopped working in the last few days.  You can see the high-level 
picture of what is going wrong in /var/log/rsnapshot.log.  /bin/cp fails 
during a large copying job.  When I run it manually, it terminates with 
errors like:

/bin/cp: cannot access 
`/home/backup/rsnapshot/daily.0/localhost/home/someone/somefile': Cannot 
allocate memory
/bin/cp: memory exhausted

Does anyone knowledgeable about such things know if there is some way we 
can fix this?  It might be related to our use of ulimits.