Re: [Upstage-list] 8083 broken

[Douglas B. <do...@ha...>]

On 08/11/14 08:19, Paul Rohrlach wrote:
> My apologies... I assumed rotation was already happening (don't even
> remember the last time I manually did that) anyhow, I'll set that up.

It would be more space efficient and probably less error-prone to use
an incremental backup system like rsnapshot rather than snapshot
tarballs. This would be especially good for media files which are
already well compressed (so gzip is ineffective) and never change (so
you get huge near-identical tarballs instead of tiny incremental
changes).

The host system has over three years of rsnapshot backups of the
upstage server (including these media tarballs) that occupy less than
280Gb.

Of course I recognise that there is a time cost to setting something
like that up, and I completely understand if you choose to stick with
tarball rotations.

Douglas