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 contains a big warning about being seriously out of date.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
