-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Kinzler wrote: >> That's scary: are there any off-site backups of the full database, >> including the article text, made anywhere, other than the constantly >> failing dumps? Given that Wikipedia is the Wikimedia Foundation's >> principal asset, I would hope that fixing this single point of failure >> would be a priority for the Foundation. > > Yes, all databases are replicated to another cluster located in amsterdam. > > But you are right: the situation does suck. We got the new hardware to get > working dumps again now, we just have to sit tight and hope this fresh dump of > enwiki works. If it does, things should go smothly again.
Assume it won't, but that new ones after the dump system is retooled a bit to run in smaller pieces in parallel will. - -- brion -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkk0SfkACgkQwRnhpk1wk46cPQCfSx+gQJfU4KxMgCNmewZVY11z V8UAoKoSx4Blu5r3aAfuPyMocI1Apf8z =GGAH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
