I figured I would decompress the .bz2 and .gz files and that subsequent downloads of dumps would only store the changes, disregarding the compressed .bz2 , .gz , and .7z files.
My purposes are just experimenting/learning (I’m a first year comp-sci student) and I really like the idea of downloading multiple dumps and it not taking up much more space.
My plan was to download a few dumps of enwikinews as a test, and then go for enwikipedia when it’s tested successfully.
I’ve just been doing this locally, however I was planning on using cloud virtual machines like aws, and then moving them to glacier for long-term storage (copies of the massive volumes).
I’ve tried following the guides for using mediawiki to reproduce the dumps, but it runs into errors after only a few thousand pages. I was going to reproduce each dump and then scrape locally for
.html files and store those. Images would be a bonus.
Then, every month I want to run a script that would do all of this automatically, storing to a dedup volume.
That’s my plan, anyway.
From: Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel@wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 29 July 2020 4:49 PM
To: Count Count <countvoncount123456@gmail.com>
Cc: griffin tucker <gtucker4.une@hotmail.com>; xmldatadumps-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] Has anyone had success with data deduplication?
The basic problem is that the page content dumps are ordered by revision number within each page, which makes good sense for dumps users but means that the addition of a single revision to a page will shift all of the remaining data ,resulting
in different compressed blocks. That's going to be true regardless of the compression type.
In the not too distant future we might switch over to multi-stream output files for all page content, fixing the page id range per stream for bz2 files. This might let a user check the current list of page ids against the previous one and
only get the streams with the pages they want, in the brave new Hadoop-backed object store of my dreams. 7z files are another matter altogether and I don't see how we can do better there without rethinking them altogether.
Can you describe which dump files you are keeping and why having them in sequence is useful? Maybe we can find a workaround that will let you get what you need without keeping a bunch of older files.
Ariel
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 8:48 AM Count Count <countvoncount123456@gmail.com> wrote: