[SAC] Fwd: Munin Notification backup.osgeo.org Disk usage in percent

[Alex Mandel]

On 03/20/2013 04:15 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> ...
>> I do think some people do need to sit down an audit what is backed up
>> especially on Projects and Adhoc where we might be backing up things like
>> Tile Caches on accident. I noticed a few users home directories being in the
>> 7 G+ range and wonder if we really need to backup all the data in those
>> folders.
>
> Likely not (e.g., I can easily identify some stuff in my home to be excluded).
>
> Note that Bacula supports a simple mechanism to exclude directories, for example
> by defining:
>
> Exclude Dir Containing = .excludeme
>
> Then simply do this as a user:
>
>    cd /path/to/exclude
>    touch .excludeme
>
> See also
> http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_3_0_0.html#SECTION008170000000000000000
>
> The one (soon) day implemented exclude string should be documented here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Backups#Bacula
>
> thanks,
> Markus
>

I'm well aware of how to configure bacula. It's a policy question/issue 
not a technical one. Basically, do we assign quotas, tell people it has 
to be in folder x, or come up with some other way to differentiate what 
actually needs to be backed up vs what is random stuff or easily 
retrievable from other sources (public data sets)?

Thanks,
Alex