Backup solutions (was Re: [Box-Admins] Permissions)

[Casey Ransberger]

I hear you. 

self break; memory inspect. 

I need to stop posting from a cell phone, is probably the problem. 

On Feb 7, 2011, at 12:57 PM, "Ken Causey" <ken at kencausey.com> wrote:

> I said:
>> Your memory is failing.
> 
> Let me nuance this a bit.  I certainly did not use the figure of 500GB
> recently.  It is possible that I've used that figure in the past as
> there is more than one way to look at this and I could have made a
> mistake and counted the entire filesystem size (including the backups).
> 
> Originally our plan was to support the usual default rsnapshot backup
> plan.  IIRC this is
> 
> 6 hourly backups              6 * 2GB = 12 GB
> 7 daily backups               7 * 3GB = 21 GB
> 4 weekly backups              4 * 3GB = 12 GB
> 6 monthly backups             6 * 4GB = 24 GB
> 
> So based on an educated guess this 'full' backup scheme would likely
> come to about 60 (one full, the rest increment)+12+21+12+24 = 129GB.
> 
> Also because the backup does not know why a file is deleted and those
> deleted files remain in the backup until manually deleted, the backup
> continuously grows, this is why the local backup is about 70GB now.
> 
> Anyway, it's entirely possible that I said 500GB at some point in the
> past based on quick estimation and pessimism.
> 
> Ken
>