[schooltool-dev] Backup Space

[Tom Hoffman]

I cleaned up my home directory and forgot about the rest of the questions...

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Brian Sutherland <jinty at web.de> wrote:
> 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

You can get rid of that directory.

> 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/*

I think the question is: is anything not cruft?  I don't need any of
that stuff anymore.

>    * 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

ignas?

>    * 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/

anyone?

--Tom