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From: kimcm@ambush.UUCP (Kim Chr. Madsen)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How long are you keeping news these days?
Message-ID: <576@ambush.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 10:54:24 GMT
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karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
>I'm rather curious.  With the high volume of news, we haven't got the
>space to keep a whole lot of news for a long time.  We keep most news
>less than a week, except for local newsgroups which we keep for as
>long as a month.

Usually a little over a month, we collect the usenet news on separate
147Mb disk on our 3b2. Keeping an eye on the freespace on the disk.

We don't do automatic backups or expire of news - since we're a
limited group who reads the news and some of us do not have the time
to read it regularly enough to avoid a fixed deadline for expire.
When expiring news we usually make a backup of all news arrived since
last backup and then expire all groups - unless someone objects to
this (as I said the numbers of netreaders are limited so we can afford
to make personal favors in this area).

>How full do you let it get?

Well, usually we let the freespace drop to 10 - 15 Mb before starting
expire.

						Regards
						Kim Chr. Madsen.