Re: [Tails-dev] reducing the amount of data on our mirrors

2014-12-23 Thread sajolida
intrigeri: Jacob Appelbaum wrote (18 Dec 2014 22:12:57 GMT) : I'd like to advocate removal from mirrors, if it is useful, but to retain the files and signatures on at least one server online. Indeed, we could simply move removed files to the obsolete/ directory on our rsync server, and

Re: [Tails-dev] reducing the amount of data on our mirrors

2014-12-19 Thread intrigeri
Jacob Appelbaum wrote (18 Dec 2014 22:12:57 GMT) : I'd like to advocate removal from mirrors, if it is useful, but to retain the files and signatures on at least one server online. Indeed, we could simply move removed files to the obsolete/ directory on our rsync server, and document to mirror

[Tails-dev] reducing the amount of data on our mirrors

2014-12-18 Thread sajolida
Hey, The administrator of one of our mirrors ran out of disk space. That made me realize that as of now, the size of those mirrors is ever growing as we are keeping all past IUK: https://archive.torproject.org/amnesia.boum.org/tails/stable/iuk/ I might have been insisting in the past on keeping

Re: [Tails-dev] reducing the amount of data on our mirrors

2014-12-18 Thread intrigeri
Hi, full ack on the idea. sajolida wrote (18 Dec 2014 14:48:08 GMT) : Other more simple algorithms could be to: - Keep them for at most six months. - Always keep at most 1GB of IUK (without counting RCs) because starting from 1GB of IUK it's lighter to do a manual upgrade. Let's