From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6060 invoked by alias); 7 Sep 2007 09:44:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 6049 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Sep 2007 09:44:57 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from virtual.bogons.net (HELO virtual.bogons.net) (193.178.223.136) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:44:52 +0000 Received: from jifvik.dyndns.org (jifvik.dyndns.org [85.158.45.40]) by virtual.bogons.net (8.10.2+Sun/8.11.2) with ESMTP id l879igS18781; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 10:44:42 +0100 (BST) Received: from [172.31.1.2] (unknown [172.31.1.2]) by jifvik.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 987133FE4; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 10:44:40 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <46E11D87.3010509@jifvik.org> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:44:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc3.4.legacy (X11/20060515) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: overseers@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Need to restore a file References: <20070906223826.1FABD70DEEB9@dzur.releasedominatrix.com> <46E0A60E.6070900@jifvik.org> <20070907015114.GO24070@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20070907015114.GO24070@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-q3/txt/msg00078.txt.bz2 Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Hi - > > >>I don't know what the status or use of the other two smaller servers are, >>but if there is sufficient disk space, I could put together an amanda >>backup (on disk) of critical areas to give us incrementals over a period. >>[...] > > > server3 is running a weekly backup of several anonymous-rsync areas, > including CVS and mailing list archives for all the projects. It's at > 78% disk utilization (14GB free) based on this. > > server2 is running mysql for the mnogosearch engine. It has 45GB > free. > > sourceware's main directories (/export/u0, /home) use 136GB and 3GB > respectively. Okay, that's not going to happen with that much space free then, especially when you allow for future expansion. I suppose no-one has a 300GB or preferably larger disk they'd be prepared to donate to put in server3? I don't know if we could get away with IDE rather than SCSI but I'm sure we don't need to RAID it, if all it's being used for is reproducible stuff - if it dies we just restart the backups on a new disk. I presume the motherboard won't have SATA. This is assuming RH would be prepared to install, and there's room in the chassis. I do have an unused Western Digital 320GB disk but it's a few years old and in any case it's possibly cheaper to buy one in the States than for me to post it from here! I'd be happy to chip in and paypal someone in order to buy one. If we did that, we'd have enough space on server3 for more regular backups, with incrementals, managed by amanda. If server3 did a more frequent rsync, amanda could just back up that, instead of connecting to sourceware; although hopefully there would be room for amanda to back up other things too - not just the things we want readily available for a "hot swap". Jifl -- ------["The best things in life aren't things."]------ Opinions==mine