I think that any initiative of a new backup or download possibility of Commons files should be welcome. If the whole Commons collection is indeed only located on two servers in the whole world that gives me a little bit of a scary feeling...
-- Hay On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote: > grin schrieb: >> Even if it is, the entry on image backups is highly nonspecific and >> contains a big warning about being seriously out of date. > > I'm not a server admin and I don't know the exact details, but as far as I > know, > the information there is correct in so far as there are two storage servers > for > media files in tampa, one replicating the other. I think the second one is > even > located in a different data center, though in the same building. What exactly > the status of automatic replication between these servers is, I do not know. > > What I do know is that the german chapter plans an off-size backup for media > files in amsterdam. We will order the hardware we need for that this year > still. > I don't know how long it will take to set up a working replication process, > but > I hope that it will not be too long. Having an off-site backup seems a good > idea, the next hurricane isn't that far away. > > We should also think about providing reasonable media bundles for download in > some way. My current idea is to create bundles of all media files used or > contained in a given category (maybe even including two or three levels of > subcategories). Such bundles would have to be created by an off-line job, i > suppose. And maybe requesting them should be limited to admins, to avoid > flooding. > > -- daniel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
