On 2 June 2011 18:48, Fae <[email protected]> wrote: > In 2016 San Francisco has a major earthquake and the servers and > operational facilities for the WMF are damaged beyond repair. The > emergency hot switchover to Hong Kong is delayed due to an ongoing DoS > attack from Eastern European countries. The switchover eventually > appears successful and data is synchronized with Hong Kong for the > next 3 weeks. At the end of 3 weeks, with a massive raft of escalating > complaints about images disappearing, it is realized that this is a > result of local data caches expiring. The DoS attack covered the > tracks of a passive data worm that only activates during back-up > cycles and the loss is irrecoverable due backups aged over 2 weeks > being automatically deleted. Due to no archive strategy it is > estimated that the majority of digital assets have been permanently > lost and estimates for 60% partial reconstruction from remaining cache > snapshots and independent global archive sites run to over 2 years of > work.
This sort of scenario is why some of us have a thing about the backups :-) (Is there a good image backup of Commons and of the larger wikis, and - and this one may be trickier - has anyone ever downloaded said backups?) - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
