[SGVLUG] Dev-sig location

[juanslayton @dslextreme.com]

Tom
     They sent me the same letter.  I'm for the change.  What about next
week?
John

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Emerson, Tom (*IC) <
Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:

> I just got a letter from the Pasadena library reminding us it is time to
> make a reservation for the next year.  I've found another location where we
> don't have to go through this administration, plus there are more outlets as
> well as wired access to the internet.  (and a decent pizza place next door)
>
> In return, I've offered for our group to help "maintain" their webserver
> [linux "admin" stuff, not web design]
>
> First up: actually doing something usefull with the "backups".  Currently
> there are cron jobs that essentially do this:
>
>   cp /home /storage/backups/$da -R
>   gzip /storage/backups/$da
>
> i.e., a full DAILY backup of the entire /home hierarchy.
>
> These files then accumulate -- there are no provisions to purge old backups
>
> They run out of room (often)
>
> But it is on a separate partitition (/storage), and silently fails (no
> e-mail, or if there is, nobody reads it)
>
> Suggestions?
>
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