Hoi,
Those copies are in the same location *that *is scary
Not good.
Thanks,
GerardM
2008/12/16 Hay (Husky) <[email protected]>
> 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 contains a big warning about being seriously out of date.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
> >
> >
> >
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