[Webteam] Working on backup solution, can you do some cleanup?

karl karl.ramberg at comhem.se
Tue May 8 05:15:42 UTC 2007


Thanks Jason
Are these backups of saved images or of images that are running ?
I have not been successful getting  images that are backed up while 
running to work.
Karl


Jason Rogers wrote:
> OK, so I modified the script.  It's essentially what Ken suggested...
>
> We will keep:
>  - all files for 7 days
>  - "first Monday of the month" files for one year
>  - other Monday files for 60 days
>
> Ken, let me know if that is sufficient.  I also modified the cron jobs
> so that they run at 5 and 15 minutes after midnight instead of 4 times
> a day on the 5th and 15th minutes of the hour.
>
> Jason
>
> On 5/7/07, Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 18:34 -0400, Jason Rogers wrote:
>> > There should be a directory of backups.  Perhaps they need to be done
>> > less often now, and not hang around so much.
>>
>> Or...
>>
>> You continue to make daily backups and we have a cron job that does
>> something like: delete all existing backups that are not either less
>> than 7 days old, recorded on a Monday and are less than 90 days old, or
>> recorded on the 1st Monday of the month.
>>
>> This would keep the last 7 days of backups, one backup from every week
>> for the next 83 days, and one backup a month for any earlier time.
>>
>> > Otherwise I am not sure
>> > what's there.  I will try to log on to the machine when I get home
>> > tomorrow night (Monday, May 7, -05:00 GMT) and see what's there and
>> > what can be removed.
>>
>> That would be great, thanks.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> >
>> > On 5/3/07, Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com> wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > I'm working on trying to get a backup solution going again but we 
>> are
>> > > currently limited by the space Hetzner will give us.  Currently the
>> > > website team's home directory has about 10GB of stuff in it.  Can 
>> some
>> > > of this be cleaned up?  Are there files that should be cleaned up 
>> on an
>> > > automated basis?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > >
>> > > Ken
>> > >
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