Re: [squid-users] reinstalling from backup

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Brett Lymn wrote:

> According to Joel Jaeggli:
> >
> >when you restart squid it will come up dirty and have to rebuild...
> >I generally don't consider my cache data important enough to worry about
> >that... requests against the proxy server will crepopulate the contents of
> >the cache did in no-time at all in most cases...
> >
>
> Well, if you don't pay for the data that can be acceptable. Since the
> guy asking comes from a .au address I suspect that he has to pay for
> his internet usage so scavenging back data from a backup tape can be
> worthwhile in the hope that at least some of the cache objects are not
> stale.

It's a tradeoff. whether restoring or not is worthwhile is probably a
question of how many objects would have been replaced in the meantime
and how long restoring the directory takes... for me downtime is a bigger
killer than replacing our cache dir contents... we're certianly paying for
the bandwidth our commercial transit currently costs on the order of $100K
(US) a month.

>

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