Comment 2 for bug 1550176

Try adding --max-blocksize=20480 or larger to your backup command. That
will reduce the memory needed.

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 1:46 AM, Ignacio Quezada <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> I wanted to backup 1.3TB on Hubic, cf+hubic://default.
>
> After many hours of uploading it ends up with an assertion error. If you
> retry, or try to list the files uploaded, it fails with the same error.
> Because of the size of the backup, I use --volsize 5000 (5gb, yes) and I
> realized that once my OS had killed the process because it had no memory
> left and apparently duplicity was taking 11GB ram.
>
>
> duplicity 0.7.06
> python 2.7.9
> Debian GNU/Linux 8.3 (jessie)
>
> The log attached is from when I retry to backup
>
> ** Affects: duplicity
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Attachment added: "duplicity log"
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1550176/+attachment/4581564/+files/duplicity-inc.log
>
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> Title:
> duplicity assserion error with big backup on Hubic
>
> Status in Duplicity:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> I wanted to backup 1.3TB on Hubic, cf+hubic://default.
>
> After many hours of uploading it ends up with an assertion error. If
> you retry, or try to list the files uploaded, it fails with the same
> error. Because of the size of the backup, I use --volsize 5000 (5gb,
> yes) and I realized that once my OS had killed the process because it
> had no memory left and apparently duplicity was taking 11GB ram.
>
>
> duplicity 0.7.06
> python 2.7.9
> Debian GNU/Linux 8.3 (jessie)
>
> The log attached is from when I retry to backup
>
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