On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Osama Khalid <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:00:38AM +1000, John Vandenberg wrote: >> A mirror system would be great; that is how project gutenberg, linux >> and sf.net do disaster recovery. It is simple, cheap and effective. > > What about history data and other logs? I'm afraid that mirrors may > not be the best way to copy all of them.
We would need to mirror the database dumps available from http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html The toolserver (run by the German chapter) has a 'live' copy of the databases, so that would likely be the first recovery option. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver Is the toolserver database missing any data which would be needed to reconstruct a wikimedia project, other than the images? The main potential problem with a replicated copy, like the toolserver, is that it can replicate the problem that occurred on the primary database. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
