[Mediawiki-l] Deleting archived files

[Frank Fulchiero]

> From: <65s.mg at atlas.cz>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Deleting archived files
> To: <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> If you don't to restore them, then you can delete the whole archive  
> directory.

Thanks, will do a complete backup then delete them.


> From: "Herta Van den Eynde" <herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Deleting archived files
>
> I do not really know, though it would seem logical that you can remove
> them.  But if you're sure you don't need the content anymore, and your
> main concern is disk space, I suppose a safe way to deal with this is
> to replace the content with an empty string.
> Still, if the images/archive folder is only a few GB in size, I
> wouldn't bother.  Disk space isn't that expensive.

Hi, no my concern is not disk space, I have a 250GB drive, and apache/ 
documents is only 2.6 GB.
However, I have to reboot from an external drive to create an image  
with NetRestore, and then the wiki is down.
NetRestore is asymmetrical, it can restore from a image in 5-10  
minutes, but takes 40-50 minutes to create that image.
So, I was trying to minimize down time. The smaller the amount of  
data, the shorter the duration.

Thanks for your feedback,
Frank Fulchiero
Digtial Media Specialist
Connecticut College