ps aux | grep rsync lists four/multiple instances

Asked by Karl Maier

While backintime is running, when I list the rsync processes with "ps aux | grep rsync" it seems that there are multiple instances of rsync are running. Do other users observe the same behavior and is this fine? :-) Thank you.

Below is the output of "ps aux | grep rsync" (parts where contents were omitted are marked with [...]).

root 2829 0.0 0.0 4096 612 ? S 18:31 0:00 sh -c rsync -aEAX -i --dry-run --chmod=Fa-w,D+w --whole-file --delete --exclude="/media/[...]" --exclude="/root/.local/share/backintime" --include="/etc/" --include="/home/[...]/" --include="/home/" --include="/etc/**" --include="/home/[...]/**" --exclude="*" / "/media/[...]/backintime/20100902-193412/backup/"
root 2830 5.9 0.6 128444 24932 ? S 18:31 0:17 rsync -aEAX -i --dry-run --chmod=Fa-w,D+w --whole-file --delete --exclude=/media/[...] --exclude=/root/.local/share/backintime --include=/etc/ --include=/home/[...]/ --include=/home/ --include=/etc/** --include=/home/[...]/** --exclude=* / /media/[...]/backintime/20100902-193412/backup/
root 2831 5.2 0.4 84740 16700 ? D 18:31 0:15 rsync -aEAX -i --dry-run --chmod=Fa-w,D+w --whole-file --delete --exclude=/media/[...] --exclude=/root/.local/share/backintime --include=/etc/ --include=/home/[...]/ --include=/home/ --include=/etc/** --include=/home/[...]/** --exclude=* / /media/[...]/backintime/20100902-193412/backup/
root 2832 0.9 0.5 126436 23648 ? S 18:31 0:02 rsync -aEAX -i --dry-run --chmod=Fa-w,D+w --whole-file --delete --exclude=/media/[...] --exclude=/root/.local/share/backintime --include=/etc/ --include=/home/[...]/ --include=/home/ --include=/etc/** --include=/home/[...]/** --exclude=* / /media/[...]/backintime/20100902-193412/backup/
[...] 2869 0.0 0.0 7636 1028 pts/0 S+ 18:35 0:00 grep --color=auto rsync

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Dan (danleweb) said :
#1

Do you have different profiles ?
Do you have BIT configured for more than one user ?

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Karl Maier (w-wall2001) said :
#2

Thanks for your answer, so I guess that multiple rsync processes showing up is unusal. I have installed BIT 0.9.6. In the menu under system tools I have two entries: "Back In Time" and "Back In Time (root)". I have configured different folders to backup for each of those. Other than for root, I have only configured BIT for one user.

I just retested it and prior to manually starting the backup, no rsync process showed up, so I'm pretty sure that manually starting BIT starts multiple rsync processes at once.

But as BIT seems to work perfectly fine, this was just a question out of curiosity :)

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Best Dan (danleweb) said :
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PIDs are: 2829, 2830, 2831, 2832
Maybe rsync use itself different processes.

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Karl Maier (w-wall2001) said :
#4

Yes, I think that is the case.

BTW, thanks for this great open source program! :)

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Karl Maier (w-wall2001) said :
#5

Thanks Dan, that solved my question.