On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:52:48AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > How often do we make backups of Savannah?
Here's the answer: (from http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/Backup) <<<< * Each day, Savannah data is rsync'd offsite. * Each week, those data are put on tape (full backup, not incremental). * We keep the first set of each month indefinitely. The others are kept for up to 2 months, and then recycled. It's straightforward to restore files from the daily rsync. However, it takes quite a lot of time to restore files from tapes: if you want to restore a single file that happens to be on tape 3 or 4 (each tape holds 100GB without compression), sysadmins need to spool through all the tapes until it is found. This takes the better part of a day. >>>> -- Sylvain
