[X2Go-Project] Free Off-Site Backup/Mirror for X2Go

[Mike Gabriel]

On  Di 22 Sep 2015 16:08:41 CEST, Stefan Baur wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> as you may (especially if you attended our X2Go - The Gathering 2015
> event) or may not know, there is a Swiss company that would be happy to
> offer free Backup/Mirror space for X2Go in exchange for mentioning them
> on our sponsors page.  The company in question is ZIIL (see CC: and
> www.ziil.ch).
>
> What's especially cool about them is that their data center is located
> in a former Swiss army bunker (see
> http://www.ziil.ch/images/zeitungsartikel_kreuzlinger_zeitung_ziilrz_11_04_2014.pdf
> for some pictures).
>
> Before asking them to provide a server (or multiple servers) to us, I
> would like everyone that maintains some kind of service for the project
> (git hosting, web hosting, build servers, whatever) to report back their
> current requirements regarding disk space for backups, plus also CPU/RAM
> requirements in case we could set up a secondary site for
> failover/loadbalancing there.  If you can provide an estimate on
> expected future use, even better.
>
> Note that for various legal reasons, the German site (currently hosted
> at Hetzner) is here to stay.  Moving the whole project into neutral
> Switzerland might sound like a good idea at first, with the lovely
> strict information privacy laws that Switzerland has, but it opens
> another can of worms regarding copyright and trademarks (and defending
> them when neccessary), as we'd need a lawyer that has experience with
> Swiss and international law for that, and those aren't cheap.
> So, for the sake of simplicity (and also because there's some truth in
> "never change a running system" - the sites hosted at Hetzner have been
> there for years), we remain based in Germany, but if things work out as
> planned, we will use the Swiss site as a backup and possibly even as a
> load balancing and disaster recovery site.
>
> Please report back to the list so we have a public overview of our
> services (I might assemble the info and put it on a separate wiki page
> later on).  It would be cool if you could send in your answers until
> Friday afternoon, but if you need longer to assemble the info, that's
> okay, just let the list know that you need an extension of the deadline.
>
> -Stefan

(root at ymir) {/srv/sites} # du -sh x2go.org/*
4,0K	x2go.org/bugs
13G	x2go.org/code
4,0K	x2go.org/lists
4,9G	x2go.org/packages

(root at ymir) {/srv/mailman} # du -sh .
3,2G	.

(root at ymir) {/srv/debbugs} # du -sh .
72G	. (ARGGGGGGHHHH....)


(root at ymir) {/srv/debbugs} # du -sh .
2,7G	. (Nach Entrümpelung des Bug-Tracker Mail-Archivs)

So that is, we should have at least 120G for those Services as  
Backup-Space. And we should make sure not to Archive all debbugs-Mail  
because there is a lot SPAM amonst them.

Best,
Mike


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