[UCLA-LUG] Extra space on kuato.

[witten@torsion.org]

On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 11:07:38AM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> hmm...  the grand total of all user directorys under home comes out to  762,
> 640 Kilobytes...  The total of all directories (including 'mailman' and
> 'httpd' but excluding 'ftp') under home comes out to 849, 142 Kilobytes.  How
> would you want to go about backing this stuff up?  Could we compress the
> backups (freeing even more disk space for mirrors/libraries)?  And then the
> question of what we want to mirror comes up...
>     --Mark

Well, there's the crude-but-effective approach:
rm -fr /mnt/backup/*
cp -ax / /mnt/backup

That's how I do it on my machine. It takes forever, but oh well. There are
all kinds of backup software packages that do it much more nicely
(differential backups, incremental backups, etc.) I think we'd want all of
/home except for perhaps ftp, since that's mostly mirrors of stuff that can
be gotten elsewhere should our harddrive crash. And then I think we should
backup all of /etc too, which is only about 1.6M. Then we'd still have over
a gig left over on the spare drive for a mirror of something. How's that
sound?

Dan

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> "Leonard D. Richardson" wrote:
> 
> > > Well, as everyone probably knows, Kuato has an extra 2 gigs of HD space.
> > > Now the question is, what are we going to do with this extra space?  Dan
> > > (witten) has suggested that we make nightly backups.  My suggestion is
> >         We should probably do backups of /home; how much space would that
> > take? Mirrors of software are always good.
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