Post 2930873 by sir@cmpwn.com
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 (DIR) Post #2909224 by sir@cmpwn.com
       2019-01-12T20:32:30Z
       
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       Finally finished setting up the new backup server for sr.ht. 52 TB of ZFS goodness with daily automatic snapshots. Now fielidng real-time postgresql replication (which is suitable for use as a failover database as well), and taking hourly backups of git.sr.ht, 2,500 miles from the primary datacenter.I was *pretty* confident in my redundancy and backup setup before, but now I have no doubt that sr.ht's data isn't going anywhere.Worth a blog post on the subject?
       
 (DIR) Post #2909272 by e@anime.website
       2019-01-12T20:36:18.662078Z
       
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       @sir Out of curiosity, what's sr.ht's present storage usage and growth? Why 52TB?>Worth a blog post on the subject?Knowing your blog posts, definitely.
       
 (DIR) Post #2909276 by sluglife@social.smurpspaek.de
       2019-01-12T20:36:28Z
       
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       @sir Are you seriously asking if we want a blog post after all this teasing? Of course we do! :D
       
 (DIR) Post #2909298 by sir@cmpwn.com
       2019-01-12T20:38:06Z
       
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       @e since it's a brand new box, the storage is mostly empty. However, I intend to keep a backlog of backups, so I can restore to any point in time. I'm keeping hourly backups for 48 hours, daily backups for 2 weeks, and weekly backups indefinitely (though this is all deduplicated so it's not growing at a ridicuous rate)I also have a tendency to over-provision things so that I don't have to worry about growth.
       
 (DIR) Post #2909367 by sir@cmpwn.com
       2019-01-12T20:41:37Z
       
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       @e also, will be useful in the future for things like offering custom build images to users, build caches, etc, which will consume a lot of space. I might also mirror linux distros, bsds, etc. All of that is pending a better evaluation of the bandwidth concerns, though.
       
 (DIR) Post #2910196 by Wolf480pl@niu.moe
       2019-01-12T21:09:22Z
       
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       @sir Definitely worth a blog post.
       
 (DIR) Post #2910222 by sir@cmpwn.com
       2019-01-12T21:09:11Z
       
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       @sluglife sorry, sorry, writing it now!
       
 (DIR) Post #2910352 by djmoch@mastodon.technology
       2019-01-12T21:15:10Z
       
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       @sir I’d read that blog post
       
 (DIR) Post #2925267 by yonk@chaos.social
       2019-01-13T09:17:19Z
       
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       @sirWhich provider are you using for this? I am currently looking into a backup server with lots of storage as well.
       
 (DIR) Post #2930873 by sir@cmpwn.com
       2019-01-13T14:45:25Z
       
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       @yonk I own my own servers and colocate them