Re: The Debian Backup Server
Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> On 10585 March 1977, Don Armstrong wrote:
> >> If you want/need more or other data from .debian.org hosts to be
> >> part of the backup, please contact debian-admin@lists.debian.org.
> > Not sure if it was just an oversight in the announcement, but it would
> > be nice to back up bugs.debian.org as well. [There are a bunch of spam
> > mailboxes that shouldn't need to be backed up; let me know if a more
> > complete list of directories/exclusions is needed.]
>
> On 10585 March 1977, Martin Schulze wrote:
> >> On Mon, 06 Mar 2006, Martin Schulze wrote:
> >> > If you want/need more or other data from .debian.org hosts to be
> >> > part of the backup, please contact debian-admin@lists.debian.org.
> >> Not sure if it was just an oversight in the announcement, but it would
> >> be nice to back up bugs.debian.org as well. [There are a bunch of spam
> >> mailboxes that shouldn't need to be backed up; let me know if a more
> >> complete list of directories/exclusions is needed.]
> > A main directory and a list of exclusions would be needed.
>
> Hey Joey, I once gave you that information. :)
*blush* You've probably confused me too much.
> > I haven't started with bugs on my own since it's so huge
> > and may run on a server short of i/o and cpu power. I'd be
> > glad to add the bts to the backup, it's a very important resource.
>
> There it is again:
>
> source=/org/bugs.debian.org/spool
> exclude="$exclude /ajtest /bak /incoming /lock /subreq /user /ajexpire /*..idx"
> exclude="$exclude /*.new /debbugs.trace /trace /stamp.*"
>
> Additionally, but that should be in the /etc backup already
Nope, since it's a symlink to /org/bugs.debian.org/etc
>
> source=/etc/debbugs
> exclude="$exclude /indices /Maintainers"
>
> That was extracted from a discussion with Don.
Added both. /etc/ with 30 copies, /spool with 20 copies at the moment,
I may increase this.
Regards,
Joey
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