Re: [Savannah-help-public] backup tape space

2006-06-01 Thread Ward Vandewege
Sorry for the late response, I was on vacation. On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 04:41:41PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > Also, do you keep backup tapes for a while, or are they reused every > week? We keep the first set of each month indefinitely. The others are kept for up to 2 months, and then recycl

Re: [Savannah-help-public] backup tape space

2006-05-19 Thread Sylvain Beucler
> > Can you tell us some more about it? Are there incremental backups? > > Currently we do a daily rsync, and once a week a full backup to tape. We > don't do incremental backups. Ok, thanks. Also, do you keep backup tapes for a while, or are they reused every week? It is easy to restore a set

Re: [Savannah-help-public] backup tape space

2006-05-18 Thread Ward Vandewege
Hi Sylvain, On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 08:22:41AM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > Can you tell us some more about it? Are there incremental backups? Currently we do a daily rsync, and once a week a full backup to tape. We don't do incremental backups. > What makes it difficult to restore a single f

Re: [Savannah-help-public] backup tape space

2006-05-16 Thread Sylvain Beucler
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:00:04PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > Hi all, > > As you know, the FSF backs up Savannah every night via rsync, and these > backups are written to tape every week. Can you tell us some more about it? Are there incremental backups? What makes it difficult to restore a s

[Savannah-help-public] backup tape space

2006-05-16 Thread Ward Vandewege
Hi all, As you know, the FSF backs up Savannah every night via rsync, and these backups are written to tape every week. Currently, the total backup set is about 666GB. The Savannah backups are almost 200GB of that. Obviously, the smaller the backup set, the faster backups are finished, and the ea