Now that the first batch import (github + snapshot.debian.org + gnu.org) is done and we won't be importing other sources for a while, a full object store backup from uffizi to banco has now started.

The backup is rather bare bone, using the following script:

#!/bin/bash

SRCDIR="/srv/softwareheritage/objects"
DESTHOST="swhstorage@backup.softwareheritage.org"

if [ -z "$1" ] ; then
    echo "Usage: $0 OBJ_FIRST_DIGIT [TAR_OPTIONS]"
    echo "E.g.:  $0 c"
    exit 1
fi
digit="$1"
shift 1

echo "* `date -R` considering objects starting with ${digit}"
for srcdir in ${SRCDIR}/${digit}* ; do
    test -d $srcdir || continue
    echo "* `date -R` sending $srcdir over"
    (cd $srcdir && tar caf - "$@" .) | ssh $DESTHOST "cd $srcdir && tar xaf -"
done

executed in parallel 16 times, one for each 0-9a-f digit.

The processes are running in a script session of my user on uffizi.

Note that this means no integrity check is being done on individual objects, we will need to do that later on (and we need to do that periodically on all object copies anyhow).