[ofa-general] backups

[Johann George]

Jeff,

If you can estimate how much space we need for backups, I'll check to
see if it is already in our budget; or else request a larger one.

Johann


On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:50:35AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > I'm backing up /data/pub/scm. A quick "du -chL" shows it to be 4.2G.
>  > Perhaps I only need to backup a subset of /data/pub/scm? Thanks.
> 
> Looks like there is plenty of excess stuff there... eg
> /data/pub/scm/~mst/linux-2.6 seems to be an partially unpacked
> non-naked linux kernel repository (just picking on mst because
> /data/pub/scm/~mst is 880M).  We could probably save a lot of space
> just keeping on packed copy of Linus's repository and having all other
> kernel trees use alternates to point to the objects there.
> 
> OTOH it's not work making people spend a lot of effort to clean up too
> much, given how cheap disk space is.
> 
>  - R.