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[tor-relays] PSA: exclude /var/lib/tor/diff-cache/ from your backups
Hello,
Turns out that dir is highly variable, and judging from the name, also
disposable.
In my case it was responsible for about 20 GB of churn over a month, i.e. it
took 25 GB to keep incremental backups of two Tor nodes with only 2 GB each in
root FS (and I was wondering what's going on with my backup location's free
space...)
Dear Tor project: this is very bad style to keep that in /var/lib, content
with properties like this must go into /var/cache/ [1], where it would be
automatically excluded from backups by default policies in most backup systems.
[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARCACHEAPPLICATIONCACHEDATA
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With respect,
Roman
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