[ris-int] Re: [Fwd: backup bottlenecks and possible improvements]
Arife Vural arife at ripe.net
Tue Sep 6 18:19:11 CEST 2005
rene wrote: > >> I had a quick look at the raw data, and I think we can save a *lot* of > >> space. A comparison tells me that if we convert from gzip to bzip2, we > >> would save something like 25% of the space. This is only 100 Gbyte or > >> so, but nice to have. > > > > I think it's a good idea. We can convert from gzip to bzip2. Few > > applications that use rawdata need to be changed to use bzip2. > > > If you agree to use bzip2, I can proceed, and do the change. > > I have no principal objections against a switch to bzip2 but it has > to be done in a coordinated way: RISwhois depends on raw data !!! > > Two changes are needed: > > 1. libbgdump MUST support bzip2 (dynamically, user shouldn't have > to worry about it, just pass any filename to bgpdump_open and > that routine should do the magic of reading the gzip or bzip > file in the correct way). > > 2. riswhoisd MUST recognise .bz2 as a valid extension for > RIS raw data files when searching archive dirs for dumps > this plan sounds good. I will let you know when libbgpdump is ready. btw, I think before doing the change we should send the announcement to ris-users list, then people also can make the changes on their side. arife > Currently, I don't know when I could work on #2, but as it depends > on #1 anyhow, I'll first wait for a new libbgpdump to be ready > before worrying about riswhois code itself. > > Cheers, > > -- Rene > > > gerard wrote: > > > > >We did not anticipate that the diskusage for the former NP-services > > >would have such an enormous impact on the EMC. Approx. 1 GB is solely > > >taken by the full backup for RIS, TTM and dnsmon. > > :-)) > > no surprise, NP projects were always data hungry :P -- Arife Vural SED, RIPE NCC
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