On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:43:56 +0000
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 20 April 2016 at 16:37, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com>
wrote:
> A bit before the freeze, the pkgs02 backups of /srv failed.
>
> This is the largest and most anoying backup we have since it's tons
> and tons and tons of git repos with small files in it. After the
> freeze, I wonder if it wouldn't be worthwhile to run a 'git gc' on
> all our pkgs git repos. This would make git pack things into fewer
> files and in general make it happier for backups and maintainers.
>
> I removed it from backups, ran a cleanup on the failed backup and
> then got a new clean backup (which took several days).
>
git the tool to break rsync.. I wonder if we need to have a 'git
backup tool for these sorts of things.. it just does a git checkout
every day :).
Well, there is grokmirror which is setup for mirroring git repos, but
I'm not sure it would save us too much. 10,000+ repos is just a lot of
repos. ;(
kevin