Verification Builds and Snapshots For Debian

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2023-10-12, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2023-10-12, Chris Lamb wrote:
>>> In the meantime, I worked on a naive implementation of this, using
>>> debmirror and btrfs snapshots (zfs or xfs are other likely candidates
>>> for filesystem-level snapshots). It is working better than I expected!
>> […]
>>> Currently weighing in at about 550GB, each snapshot of the archive for
>>> amd64+all+source is weighing in under 330GB if I recall correctly... so
>>> that is over a month worth of snapshots for the cost of about two full
>>> snapshots. Obviously, adding more architectures would dramatically
>>> increase the space used (Would probably add arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el
>>> and riscv64 if I were to do this again).
>>
>> This sounds like great progress. :)  Do you have any updates since you
>> posted your message?
>
> It's still running!

The original btrfs based one now has snapshots as far back as july 2023
up to the present, and is currently 974GB. So, that looks like overall
about 330GB growth per month, roughly.

live well,
  vagrant
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