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[Steve Christensen]

Martin Pool wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 13:40 -0600, Steve Christensen wrote:
> 
> > We used ClearCase to archive the source and final data. I'm not sure how
> > much space it took on the server, but when pulled down onto a client
> > machine the 'head' versions of all files was around 180 GB (~20,000
> > files, 700+ folders).
> 
> That's pretty large.  How well did ClearCase handle that?

I assume it reached 300-400 GB of storage on the server side.  I'm not
sure how much trouble it gave our IT people when it came time to do
backups. But, it did reasonably well. We didn't have any corruption
trouble (although... we only had it running at that capacity a little
over a year before I left... I don't know how it will perform
long-term).

As you'd expect, it took a long time to do the initial download to the
local sandbox... Actually that reminds me, sometimes updating the
sandbox would fail. Some intermittant network hiccup would cause maybe
10-20% of my updates to fail while downloading one of the big files
(1.5+ GB). I'd have to update repeatedly until the errors went away.


-Steve