<div dir="ltr">On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nemowiki@gmail.com" target="_blank">nemowiki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Ryan Lane, 21/05/2013 19:41:<br>
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Hydriz told me in the past that the dumps project is just uploading the<br></div>
dumps to <a href="http://archive.org" target="_blank">archive.org</a> <<a href="http://archive.org" target="_blank">http://archive.org</a>>. I'm confused as to why it's<div class="im"><br>
necessary to write them anywhere at all. They are accessible directly at<br>
/public/data. Can they not be directly uploaded from that location?<br>
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Is dumps being used for an additional purpose?<br>
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Yes, closely related to those, for instance Commons media (not progressing much lately). <a href="https://archive.org/details/wikimediacommons" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/<u></u>wikimediacommons</a><br>
Anyway, if it's a big deal we can just use my home PC as usual.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's not that I'm opposed to it, but it's a massive waste of resources to download from something in the network to a network fileserver, then to upload it to <a href="http://archive.org">archive.org</a>.<br>
<br></div><div>Why is it necessary to write hundreds of GB to the fileserver before they are uploaded?<br><br></div><div>- Ryan<br></div></div></div></div>