[ofa-general] backups

[Jeff Becker]

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.

-jeff

On 6/20/07, Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote:
>  > Hi. I've started backing up the git trees and the web content using
>  > rsync. John Companies gave us a 10G NFS partition for this. I've done
>  > two backups and there's only 800M left. Also, I haven't backed up the
>  > daily builds yet. I was told we could get more space for one dollar
>  > per GB per month. Depending on the budget, we should increase this
>  > backup space. How should we proceed? Thanks.
>
> Where is all the space going?  A full kernel git tree (with more than
> two years of history) takes less than 150 MB of storage for me.  How
> are we using up so much space?
>
> Also, FWIW, amazon S3 is $0.15 / GB-month + $0.10 for each GB
> transferred in.  Of course it's probably a lot less convenient to back
> up to.
>
>  - R.
>