When trying to find things to clean up in order to trim the space used on Tools NFS, I found this old file.
Is this still needed or in use? It looks like this tool is there just to serve the archive, but it's not exactly recent anymore.
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- Due Date
- May 22 2020, 12:00 AM
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | • JHedden | T247315 2020-03-10: tools and misc nfs share cleanup | |||
| Resolved | Nemo_bis | T247336 Do we still need /data/project/toolserver-home-archive/archive-2014-06-05.tar.xz |
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$ ls -lh /data/project/toolserver-home-archive/archive-2014-06-05.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 tools.toolserver-home-archive tools.toolserver-home-archive 52G Jun 11 2014 /data/project/toolserver-home-archive/archive-2014-06-05.tar.xz
This file was last discussed in T136202: toolserver-home-archive is using 52G on Tools. I believe the contents of this file are also available at https://archive.org/download/wikimedia-toolserver-home-2014-06-05.
@Nemo_bis is listed as the sole maintainer of the tool which currently holds this file locally on Toolforge. Nemo declined the prior ticket. I feel that his argument at the time was basically that somebody might find that they want/need a file from this archive at some point. 3-4 years later, I think I would be inclined to argue that the data is available at the Internet Archive and we can point folks there if they suddenly realize that a file they knew about 6 years ago is relevant to their current work for the projects.
@Nemo_bis What are your current thoughts about the utility of having this large archive hosted locally within the Toolforge tool $HOME NFS partition?
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I have set a 2020-05-22 deadline for this removal and notified @Nemo_bis on their meta talk page.
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Thanks for looking into it and for the notification. I have deleted the file.
There was some use of it for a while after the last time we discussed this, but I've not heard of any tool or data recovered from the archive in recent times. (https://tools.wmflabs.org/pirsquared/ts_archive/ is a 404 too now, not sure what happened there.)