[schooltool-dev] Backup Space

[Brian Sutherland]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:00:07PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:46:17PM +0300, Ignas Mikalajunas wrote:
> > >    * 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
> > 
> > I think it's logs... 160 twistd.log files 984K each can eat quite some
> > space. Maybe you can just skip everything that is *.log when backing
> > up? And the rest is the whole buildbot build history... so i am not
> > sure how much of it can we afford to lose...
> 
> I would say there's nothing worth saving under /slaves, except maybe for
> /slaves/$slavename/info/, and the only important thing under
> /masters/schooltool is master.cfg.

I'm ignoring this:

/var/local/buildbot/masters/schooltool/twistd.log.*
/var/local/buildbot/slaves/schooltool/*/build

Seems to get the important parts, but ignore the big parts.

> 
> Well, you may also want to preserve buildbot.tac, I think, if you want
> to simplify backup recovery, but that one can be easily recreated.
> 
> > >    * 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)
> 
> I cannot find anything about backups on http://bazaar-vcs.org/
> 
> Marius Gedminas
> -- 
> <Corsac> yeah, i'm reading the answers, currently
> <Corsac> but what I see is that there is no real procedure to rebuild initfs
> <Corsac> the common way seems to use a loop device with a jffs2 filesystem, put
>          original files there, and add other files, then umount, flash and pray
>    <dwd> Corsac: You forgot "ritual sacrifice of a medium sized rodent".
>          Without that, it'll never work.
>    <zuh> And if it doesn't work the first time, re-adjust towel ordering in the
>          restroom and try again
>                 -- #maemo



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