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WebGISDR Backup File Size...Examples?

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08-04-2022 08:50 AM
JenniferDooley1
Occasional Contributor

Hi, We want to configure WebGISDR and start generating backups via the utility. To begin with, we need to find an appropriate shared directory on our network to point the SHARED_LOCATION part of the configuration to.

For those of you that generate backups using WebGISDR, what kind of sizes are you seeing for the full backup files that the utility outputs?  I'm trying to get a very general idea of how large these are going to be so we can plan for shared drive space accordingly.  I know this varies a lot by how many users there are, how much content is in the Portal, how many services are published, etc.  We are a medium-sized water/wastewater utility, and so far, I'd say the amount of content we've published is fairly modest.  We have about 170 users, almost all of whom are viewer level.  In terms of services, we have a dozen or so that are heavily used and a few dozen more that are occasionally accessed.  Any real-life examples of backup sizes you all can provide would be helpful.  Thank you! 

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JonathanQuinn
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As @TonyContreras_Frisco_TX mentioned, there's no way to give an accurate estimate of the size of an organizations backup without actually running the utility. A very rough estimate can be gathered by adding together the size of the content directory for Portal, size of the arcgisdatastore directory for Data Store, and the size of the config-store and directories path for Server. You might think to apply some multiplier to account for growth, (2.5x total size of all data?). 

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TonyContreras_Frisco_TX
Frequent Contributor

You are correct that the size will vary from one organization to another. At one point our Full backup size was about 2.5 GB, but the sized grew to over 20 GB after an analyst added 3d data to our datastore. The only way to know for sure is to create the backup with the tool and check the size of the output.

JonathanQuinn
Esri Notable Contributor

As @TonyContreras_Frisco_TX mentioned, there's no way to give an accurate estimate of the size of an organizations backup without actually running the utility. A very rough estimate can be gathered by adding together the size of the content directory for Portal, size of the arcgisdatastore directory for Data Store, and the size of the config-store and directories path for Server. You might think to apply some multiplier to account for growth, (2.5x total size of all data?). 

JenniferDooley1
Occasional Contributor

Thanks to both of you for the replies!  That does help us. -Jennifer

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IngoSchmied
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Following the "rough estimate" mentioned by @JonathanQuinn, on our enterprise server, we currently have 4kB for the Portal content directory, 194GB for the arcgisdatastore directory, 8.9GB for the server directories, and 246MB for the server config-store, for a total of roughly 203GB.

We have a drive mount of 600GB dedicated to the file system SHARED_LOCATION and BACKUP_LOCATION, and tried to run webgisdr to create a backup file on that drive mount, and it failed with:

System ERROR:

errno=28 : No space left on device

Is it common for the backup to require up to three or more times the storage than the data being backed up?

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