Re: [Upstage-list] 8083 broken

[Paul R. <pau...@gm...>]

I'm not familiar with that one (I spend 99% of my time in an environment
where space isn't an issue) but I'll certainly look into it :)
On 8 Nov 2014 13:03, "Douglas Bagnall" <do...@ha...> wrote:

> 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
>
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