[schooltool-dev] Backup Space

[Brian Sutherland]

I've been looking at ways to minimize backup space for schooltool.org,
it's getting out of control.

What are these files, are they needed?

    220M    /home/ftp/pub/wye/wye.zip

And some general policy questions:

    * How much of our FTP site should we be baking up?
        (Looking in there, I'm basically seeing lots of cruft
        so, could we clean up the cruft or no back it up?)

        currently I am excluding these directories from the backup:
            /home/ftp/pub/schooltool/live-cd/*.iso
            /home/ftp/pub/schooltool/releases/nightly/*
    
    * Tom, your home directory is pretty big:

        root at tigris:/home/hoffman # du -hs * .
        109M    Data.fs
        50M     fhs-backup
        6.4M    fhs-backup.tgz
        309M    schooltool
        39M     st-fhs-spring.tgz
        22M     st-setup.tgz
        2.6M    tom
        535M    .

      Mind putting the stuff you don't really need backed up into a
      directory /home/hoffman/nobackup I've created for you?

    * Ignas: you too!

    * There seems to be a LOT of buildbot stuff. Any way we can get
      buildbot to put it's not-to-be-backed-up data somewhere sane?

        498M    /var/local/buildbot/masters/schooltool/
        144M    /var/local/buildbot/slaves

    * How should the bzr repositories be backed up in /var/local/bzr?
        (I am assuming that a normal filesystem backup is not
        sufficient, as is the case for svn)
      Also, is there a space-saving way of backing them up?

        391M    /var/local/bzr/

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Brian Sutherland