200GB a day

[mike tancsa]

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> And roughly speaking, how much hard disk space does Argus use per GB of
> data transfered? (I know that it will be different depending on the type
> of communication, but I'm just looking for real life figures)
> 
> Also, I'm a but confused about your numbers. If you are averaging
> 200Mb/s, wouldn't that mean that you are transfering 109GB per day? But
> maybe you have lots of quiet time?

It depends on the flows and what options you use. If there are lots of
small flows vs a few big ones, it makes a difference.  For example, if
you run a backup service where a few sites send you a bunch of very
large files, vs someone who provides DNS services.  For us, the argus
files are about 45GB a day uncompressed.  200Mb/s is a rough 24hr avg
for a typical day for the parts of the network we monitor. Some times
will be much higher, others lower.  But the types of traffic make a big
difference.

	---Mike