David, Yes, Tarsnap is a versioned backup by snapshot, like macOS's Time Machine, so typically just let Tarsnap do its thing and no need to also keep multiple file backups. The only drawback is if you wanted to revert to version z.y.x it may take a little trial and error to find it by date.
Also recall that Tarsnap does data de-duplication to minimize the size of data it needs to store. Uncompressed files work better with this. Lonnie > On Jan 18, 2022, at 4:20 PM, David Kerr <da...@kerr.net> wrote: > > Thanks Lonnie. I will investigate. While fossil is the single largest file > in my tarsnap backup, there is only one of them. The next largest is my > unifi controller backup at 25MB... for which the last 10 backups are > maintained, so 250MB. As tarsnap maintains its own history, am I right that > this is wasteful and I only need to include the most recent file in tarsnap? > > Thanks > David > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:07 AM Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> > wrote: > Hi David, > > I would find why it is growing and ignore them for the future. > > By design, Fossil keeps everything forever, though there is a method to > "shun" artifacts but still takes some effort to get a reduction of the fossil > database: > > https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/shunning.wiki > > I have never tried this on a local repo (like AstLinux has), and if you play > with this be sure to use a copy. > > Personally I would find the culprit why the Fossil DB was growing so much and > leave it at that. > > Lonnie > > > > > > On Jan 18, 2022, at 8:54 AM, David Kerr <da...@kerr.net> wrote: > > > > Michael, > > Thanks, there could well be some file(s) in there that I don't need. > > That is something I am trying to track down. Even if I find that, I'll > > need to figure out how to delete from the history in the db. > > > > Oh... and I misread the file size, I was off by a digit, so 100's MB not > > over GB. But still significant. > > > > David > > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 9:37 AM Michael Keuter <li...@mksolutions.info> > > wrote: > > > > > >> Am 18.01.2022 um 15:00 schrieb David Kerr <da...@kerr.net>: > >> > >> Is there a way I can manage my fossil db size? I think it is much larger > >> than it could be, probably because it has years of changes... the db is > >> 1.8GB which expands to 3.4GB when dumped for tarsnap backup... which is > >> 75% of my total tarsnap backup, driving up my tarsnap costs. > >> > >> Is there a way I can, for example, prune the fossil db so that it contains > >> only e.g. last 3 months of file history. > >> > >> And is there a way for me to get a listing of everything in the fossil db > >> and what size it is... maybe there is just one or two files in particular > >> causing the problem. > >> > >> Thanks > >> David > > > > Hi David, > > > > hmm mine is 2.5 MB of size after many years. Do you include binary files in > > Fossil? > > There is an option to ignore certain file types in Fossil => Admin => > > Settings: "ignore-glob" > > > > <Bildschirmfoto 2022-01-18 um 15.34.10.png> > > > > Maybe that helps. > > > > Michael > > > > http://www.mksolutions.info > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Astlinux-users mailing list > > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > > pay...@krisk.org. > > _______________________________________________ > > Astlinux-users mailing list > > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > > pay...@krisk.org. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > pay...@krisk.org. > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > pay...@krisk.org. _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
