Its not at all clear why the english wikipedia dump or other large dumps need to be compressed. It is far more absurd to spend hundreds of days compressing a file than it is to spend tens of days downloading one.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/23/09 5:31 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: >> Copying the Commons list. >> >> I am interested in hosting (and running some scripts on) copies of the >> commons media dump on offline regional servers for offline-reading >> purposes. This is difficult without an image dump. > > Awesome -- can you work with an rsync3-over-ssh setup? Email me and > we'll set it up. > > (Reminds me -- Greg, can we make sure we've got yours going again?) > > -- brion > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
