Στις 26-09-2012, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 23:38 +0000, ο/η Tim Landscheidt έγραψε: > (anonymous) wrote: > > > [...] > > Ryan Lane wrote: > >> If WMF becomes evil, fork the entire infrastructure into EC2, > >> Rackspace cloud, HP cloud, etc. and bring the community operations > >> people along for the ride. Hell, use the replicated databases in Labs > >> to populate your database in the cloud. > > > Tim Landscheidt wrote: > >> But the nice thing about Labs is that you can try out (re- > >> plicable :-)) replication setups at no cost, and don't have > >> to upfront investments on hardware, etc., so when time > >> comes, you can just upload your setup to EC2 or whatever and > >> have a working Wikipedia clone running in a manageable time- > >> frame. > > > This is not an easy task. Replicating the databases is enormously > > challenging (they're huge datasets in the cases of the big wikis) and > > they're constantly changing. If you tried to rely on dumps alone, you'd > > always be out of date by at least two weeks (assuming dumps are working > > properly). Two weeks on the Internet is a lot of time. > > I don't know if this is not an easy task, but you are proba- > bly right. So what? If a scenario of WMF turning rogue > couldn't bear losing two weeks of edits while saving almost > a decade, we should work on ways to incremental dumps. >
In fact there are (experimental) adds/changes dumps, so while it might not be a 5 minute procedure to get that data into your copy, and deletions and suppressions wouldn't be covered, the amount of data that would be lost would be pretty small. Ariel _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
