Re: /home/blast 98%

From: Ernie Bisson, MIT Bates Linear Accelerator (BISSON@aesir.lns.mit.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 19 2005 - 11:54:35 EST


>Hi,
>
> I have no problem with a quota system and maybe we should address this.
>
> The reason for not installing a larger drive is, I believe, that
>backups then become problematic. However, maybe we could have larger
>drives but reduce the backup load by backing up only certain
>directories or files.

Backups are done using the "dump" utility, which operates at the file system
level. Essentially this means you can't specify certain directories to backup
(unlike tar).

> Certainly we can remove a lot of inactive users.

This is the quickest and easiest solution (at least for the short term). No
down time of /home/blast or the file server is needed.
                                                                         
Ernie



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