On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:15 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Steven Stallion <[email protected]> writes: > >> Sizing venti is also simple. > > I disagree with this. The best way to configure venti depends largely > on how you plan to use it. I have multiple venti servers configured for > different uses. For example, I keep my DVD images on a different venti > server than I do for smaller, more frequently-used files such as mail.
see venti(8); there's plenty of advice on configuring your store with rough estimations for an initial conf file. Once you decide your geometry, it's trivial to extend the number of arenas in the store, just remember to reindex. > I don't know that to be true. If the source and destination volumes are > the same size, yes, it's easy to just dd the arenas. But if you're > relocating to a smaller/larger partition, what would be an easy way to > do that? see venti-backup(8).
