[tech] Re: [ucc-announce] (Downtime) Sunday

[Nick Bannon]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 02:40:48PM +0800, Duncan Sargeant wrote:
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> 100mb gutenberg mirror from 1994 - aloha mirror.aarnet

Please don't kill this sort of thing - if anything, we should update it.
(Maybe OLGA too) It's not much space, and it _is_ handy.

> 200mb /services/src - old copies of software used locally, presumably
>       before we were all debian weenies.

It's a good idea to keep around a tar'ed copy of the software we compile
ourselves, but I'd usually do that on a machine's /usr/local/src. Hence if
we have to do it again at a later date, we have a known working version.

[some new scratch directory proposed]

That's exactly what /services/tmp is for, a handy, world writable,
sticky bit directory that can be cleared out if we need the space.

Home directories? No, I'm not suggesting we reduce them - just increase
them _slowly_, in this case from 6GB to 9GB. No amount of space will
ever be enough, so we shouldn't instantly throw more at it every time
it runs a bit low, otherwise it will simply get expensive to buy and
progressively harder to back up. Yes, you can split it over ten tapes
almost as easily as three. Are _you_ going to do it?

(if so, how often? and are you going to restore items for anyone who
asks? how often? would your answers change if it all fit on one tape
and you could just let it run overnight? ...)

Nick.

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