Re: [Upstage-list] 8083 broken

[helen v. j. <he...@cr...>]

that does sound like a better option; having multiple back-ups that
duplicate the same media is a bit silly, especially if it means we are
running out of space. it would be great if you can look into it when you
have time, paul :)

On 8/11/14 4:26 PM, Paul Rohrlach wrote:
>
> 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...
> <mailto: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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