MZMcBride wrote: > John Vandenberg wrote: >> The key would be to allow the mirrors to delete their mirror when they >> need to use their excess storage capability. If they let us know in >> advance that they are reclaiming the space, another organisation with >> excess storage capability can take over. > > Surely I don't need to be the one to point out that another huge issue with > mirrors is that they often replicate bad information ("John Doe is a > rapist", etc.). The mirrors you all are talking about sound like they'd > update fairly regularly. Some of the current (unofficial) mirrors, however, > have a horrible tendency to import once and then linger forever. > > MZMcBride
If they are not live mirrors which will go down when they can't connect to wikipedia on-the-fly to scrape their data (so they aren't really mirroring anything). John wrote: > IIRC, it Greg Maxwell who had (some of?) the images that the > Foundation lost when a bug was rolled into production. Yes. He has a partial copy of the images. George wrote: > If there's interest in an offline discussion on IT disasters and > disaster recovery and reliability engineering, I can do that, but it > should be offline from Foundation-L... This thread should move to wikitech-l or xmldatadumps-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l