[Server-devel] Backup And Restore Feature Documentation

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com> wrote:
> to tell people to make sure they have enough space for each XO. I'm not sure
> how you estimate the maximum size of the Journal or Datastore but its a
> start.

At least 2x the XO storage.

> Do you want to say anything about what happens if your available XS quota is
> smaller than the XOs datastore? If it deletes the whole backup  I could put
> that in there. That makes it a little more real and will encourage people to
> take the note seriously.

Yup. Spot on.

> One suggestion for XS 0.5. I suggest we have an option to turn feature off
> at the XS. I'm sure people can hack in and do that manually but they may
> miss it. My understanding is that if you don't have space on your XS then
> backups will be useless and its better to turn it off.

Hmmm, tricky: the services are very interrelated. Let's look at it later...

> I'm calling the doc on this one done. One more item off the 8.2 release
> check list :-)

Cool.

cheers,



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