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This page addresses a [https://git-annex.branchable.com git-annex] implementation of [[INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK]].
This page addresses a [https://git-annex.branchable.com git-annex] implementation of [[INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK]].


For more information, see http://git-annex.branchable.com/design/iabackup/
= Quickstart =


= First tasks =
Do this on the drive you want to use:


Some first steps to work on:
<pre>
$ git clone https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/IA.BAK
$ cd IA.BAK
$ ./iabak
</pre>


* Get a list of files, checksums, and urls. (done)
It will walk you through setup and starting to download files, and install a cron job (or .timer unit) to perform periodic maintenance.
* Write a script to generate a git-annex repository with 100k files from the list. (done)
* Set up a server to serve up the git repos. Any linux system with a few hundred gb of disk and ssh and git-annex installed will do. It needs to accept incoming ssh connections from registered clients, only letting them run git-annex-shell.
* Put one shard repo on the server to start.
* Manually register a few clients to start, have them manually download some files, and `git annex sync` their state back to the server. See how it all hangs together.
* Get that first shard backed up enough to be able to say, "we have successfully backed up 1/1770th of the IA!"


= Middle tasks =
It should prompt you for how much disk space to not use. To adjust this value later, use <code>git config annex.diskreserve 200GB</code> in all of the <code>IA.BAK/shard*</code> directories.


* Test a restore of that first shard. Tell git-annex the content is no longer in the IA. Get the clients to upload it to our server.
Configuration and maintenance information can be found in the README.md file. (Also available at https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/IA.BAK/#readme)


= Later tasks =
=== Dependencies ===
* sane UNIX environment (shell, df, perl, grep)
* git
* crontab OR systemd (NOTE: you may need to run <code>loginctl enable-linger <user></code> to make sure the job is not killed)
* <code>shuf</code> (optional - will randomize the order you download files in)


* Create all 1770 shards, and see how that scales.
= Status =
* Write pre-receive git hook, to reject pushes of branches other then the git-annex branch, and probably do other checks for bad/malicious pushes.
* Write client registration backend, which generates the client's ssh private key, git-annex UUID, and sends them to the client (somehow tied to IA library cards?)
* Client runtime environment (docker image maybe?) with warrior-like interface (all that needs to do is configure things and get git-annex running)


= demo shard =
[http://iabak.archiveteam.org/ Graphs of status]


This git-annex repository contains 100k files, the entire collections "internetarchivebooks" and "usenethistorical".
[http://iabak.archiveteam.org/stats/ raw data]


http://tmp.kitenet.net/iabackup/testrepo1.git/
= Implementation plan =


To play with this, just git clone it, and then you can run `git annex get` to download files, or `git annex whereis` to show where git-annex knows a file is.
For more information, see http://git-annex.branchable.com/design/iabackup/


`git annex status` shows some stats about the files this repository is tracking:
== First tasks ==


annexed files in working tree: 103343
Some first steps to work on:


size of annexed files in working tree: 2.91 terabytes
* Get a list of files, checksums, and urls. (done)
* Write a script to generate a git-annex repository with 100k files from the list. (done)
* Set up a server to serve up the git repos. Any linux system with a few hundred gb of disk and ssh and git-annex installed will do. It needs to accept incoming ssh connections from registered clients, only letting them run git-annex-shell. (done)
* Put one shard repo on the server to start. (done)
* Manually register a few clients to start, have them manually download some files, and `git annex sync` their state back to the server. See how it all hangs together. (done)
* Get that first shard backed up enough to be able to say, "we have successfully backed up 1/1770th of the IA!" (done!)


The size of the git repository itself is 51 megabytes.
== Middle tasks ==


'''Note that due to the IA census using md5sums, you need git-annex version 5.20150205 to work with this repository.'''
* get fscking and dead client expiry working (done)
* Test a restore from a shard. Tell git-annex the content is no longer in the IA. Get the clients to upload it to our server.
* Write client registration interface, which generates the client's ssh private key, git-annex UUID, and sends them to the client (done)
* Help the user get the iabak-cronjob set up.
* Email expire warnings (done)


= git-annex scalability tests =
== Later tasks ==


== git-annex repo growth test ==
* Create all 1770 shards, and see how that scales.
* Write pre-receive git hook, to reject pushes of branches other then the git-annex branch (already done), and prevent bad/malicious pushes of the git-annex branch
* Client runtime environment (docker image maybe?) with warrior-like interface (all that needs to do is configure things and get git-annex running)


I made a test repo with 10000 files, added via git annex. After git gc --aggressive, .git/objects/ was 4.3M.
== SHARD1 ==


I wanted to see how having a fair number of clients each storing part of that and communicating back what they were doing would scale. So, I made 100 clones of the initial repo, each representing a client.
This is our first part of the IA that we want to get backed up. If we succeed, we will have backed up 1/1770th of the Internet Archive.
 
This git-annex repository contains 100k files, the entire collections "internetarchivebooks" and "usenethistorical".
Then in each client, I picked 300 files at random to download. This means that on average, each file would end up replicated to 3 clients. I ran the downloads one client at a time, so as to not overload my laptop.
 
Then I had each client sync its git-annex state back up with the origin repo. (Again sequentially.)
After this sync, the size of the git objects grew to 24M, gc --aggressive reduced it to 18M.


Next, I wanted to simulate maintenance stage, where clients are doing fsck every month and reporting back about the files they still have.
Some stats about the files this repository is tracking:
I dummied up the data that would be generated by such a fsck, and ran it in each client (just set location log for each present file to 1).
* number of files: 103343
After syncing back to the origin repo, and git gc --aggressive, the size of the git objects grew to 19M, so 1MB per month growth.
* total file size: 2.91 terabytes
* size of the git repository itself was 51 megabytes to start
* after filling up shard1, the git repo had grown to 196 mb
* We aimed for 4 copies of every file downloaded, but a few files got 5-8 copies made, due to eg, races and manual downloads. Want to keep an eye on this with future shards.
* We got SHARD1 fully downloaded between April 1-6th. It took a while to ramp up as people came in, so later shards may download faster. Also, 2/3 of SHARD2 was downloaded during this same time period.


Summary: Not much to worry about here. Note that if, after several years, the git-annex info in the repo got too big, git-annex forget can be used to forget old history, and drop it back down to starting levels. This leaves plenty of room to grow; either to 100k files, or to 1000 clients. And this is just simulating one share, of thousands.
== Admin details ==


Script: http://tmp.kitenet.net/git-annex-growth-test.sh
See [[INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK/admin]].

Latest revision as of 16:32, 17 January 2017

This page addresses a git-annex implementation of INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK.

Quickstart

Do this on the drive you want to use:

$ git clone https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/IA.BAK
$ cd IA.BAK
$ ./iabak

It will walk you through setup and starting to download files, and install a cron job (or .timer unit) to perform periodic maintenance.

It should prompt you for how much disk space to not use. To adjust this value later, use git config annex.diskreserve 200GB in all of the IA.BAK/shard* directories.

Configuration and maintenance information can be found in the README.md file. (Also available at https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/IA.BAK/#readme)

Dependencies

  • sane UNIX environment (shell, df, perl, grep)
  • git
  • crontab OR systemd (NOTE: you may need to run loginctl enable-linger <user> to make sure the job is not killed)
  • shuf (optional - will randomize the order you download files in)

Status

Graphs of status

raw data

Implementation plan

For more information, see http://git-annex.branchable.com/design/iabackup/

First tasks

Some first steps to work on:

  • Get a list of files, checksums, and urls. (done)
  • Write a script to generate a git-annex repository with 100k files from the list. (done)
  • Set up a server to serve up the git repos. Any linux system with a few hundred gb of disk and ssh and git-annex installed will do. It needs to accept incoming ssh connections from registered clients, only letting them run git-annex-shell. (done)
  • Put one shard repo on the server to start. (done)
  • Manually register a few clients to start, have them manually download some files, and `git annex sync` their state back to the server. See how it all hangs together. (done)
  • Get that first shard backed up enough to be able to say, "we have successfully backed up 1/1770th of the IA!" (done!)

Middle tasks

  • get fscking and dead client expiry working (done)
  • Test a restore from a shard. Tell git-annex the content is no longer in the IA. Get the clients to upload it to our server.
  • Write client registration interface, which generates the client's ssh private key, git-annex UUID, and sends them to the client (done)
  • Help the user get the iabak-cronjob set up.
  • Email expire warnings (done)

Later tasks

  • Create all 1770 shards, and see how that scales.
  • Write pre-receive git hook, to reject pushes of branches other then the git-annex branch (already done), and prevent bad/malicious pushes of the git-annex branch
  • Client runtime environment (docker image maybe?) with warrior-like interface (all that needs to do is configure things and get git-annex running)

SHARD1

This is our first part of the IA that we want to get backed up. If we succeed, we will have backed up 1/1770th of the Internet Archive. This git-annex repository contains 100k files, the entire collections "internetarchivebooks" and "usenethistorical".

Some stats about the files this repository is tracking:

  • number of files: 103343
  • total file size: 2.91 terabytes
  • size of the git repository itself was 51 megabytes to start
  • after filling up shard1, the git repo had grown to 196 mb
  • We aimed for 4 copies of every file downloaded, but a few files got 5-8 copies made, due to eg, races and manual downloads. Want to keep an eye on this with future shards.
  • We got SHARD1 fully downloaded between April 1-6th. It took a while to ramp up as people came in, so later shards may download faster. Also, 2/3 of SHARD2 was downloaded during this same time period.

Admin details

See INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK/admin.