[Building Sakai] Data Archiving?

[Matthew Jones]

As long as you're under 24 hours you're good right?! :)

If your files are on the filesystem as Chuck suggested, I'd probably just
change my backup strategy to only backup files modified since the last
backup ran. At Michigan, we had/have Tivoli Storage Manager available which
backed up about 1GB of changed files (out of about a 100GB partition) in
about 5 minutes. Some setup with rsync would probably do the same thing.
What are your admins using now?

Generally any effort to clean up files in the past (removing old sites,
finding the biggest files) only gained around 20-25% disk space, so really
wasn't worth the time since it was filled up so fast again.


On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:

> Kelly - this is kind of a basic and obvious question - have you moved your
> blobs out of your database and onto a file system?   If not, you should.
>
> /Chuck
>
> On Feb 13, 2013, at 5:27 PM, Geng, Kelly wrote:
>
> Hi Dev-list,
>
> I wonder whether schools which have been running Sakai for a few years
> have started to archive away course data, especially data on the hard disk?
> Our System Admins have started to complain about it taking 14 hours for a
> daily backup to finish. We've run Sakai just over 2 years and have 2.5 T
> data on the disk. Any ideas or practice to recommend?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Kelly
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