On 3 July 2010 17:35, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Birgitte SB <[email protected]> wrote: > David Gerard writes:
>> http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2007/04/10/disaster-recovery-planning/ >> Can we reasonably say that everything else on the list there is a >> solved problem we don't have to worry about? > I wonder how robustly the user database is backed up / whether it's in > multiple data centers. Talking to Danese yesterday, she is keenly aware of this stuff and how the Tampa data centre is one hurricane away from disappearing! Hence plans for a redundant data centre in Virginia, etc. > You're right that our role as > identity-verifier for our millions of users is important. That's getting into more esoteric threat models, e.g. protecting reusers from an insane contributor, or protecting contributors from a malicious reuser. But the data we hold but don't put into the public dumps is really very important stuff. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
