I'm intrigued by the third server, which will keep copies of all media files. Right now, as I understand it, copies of images and media files on commons and elsewhere are not backed up. In September, <span>496 files were lost from commons, and the developers were asking around if anyone had backup copies and asking uploaders to re-upload. (</span><a href="http://www.nabble.com/Massive-image-loss-td19328360.html">http://www.nabble.com/Massive-image-loss-td19328360.html</a>)<br>
<br>Will the new media file backup server address this sort of problem? Or being a live backup, will it suffer from the same issues/mistakes that affect the main Wikimedia servers?<br><br>-Aude<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Daniel Kinzler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel@brightbyte.de">daniel@brightbyte.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all<br>
<br>
I'm happy to let you know that new hardware has been ordered by Wikimedia<br>
Deutschland and will arrive probably in about two weeks. We will get two new<br>
systems:<br>
<br>
* A more powerful web server, to replace hemlock: Sun Fire X4150, 2x Quad-Core<br>
Xeon, 8GB RAM, 2x73GB SAS HDD. The current web server only has two cores.<br>
* Another database server, to be used for S1 (english wikipedia), so S1 and S3<br>
no longer have to share a server: Sun Fire X4250, 2x Quad-Core Xeon, 32GB RAM,<br>
16x146GB SAS RAID.<br>
<br>
This should improve performance and give us some head space for growth. Once the<br>
new servers arrive, S3 will be re-imported too, so we will have live data again.<br>
<br>
Any ideas for names? To stay with the nightshade theme, how about Jurubeba and<br>
Erubia? Or perhaps we go the "witches' weed" way, with Datura and Mandrake?<br>
Henbane is taken, i think. Amanita sounds nice, too :)<br>
<br>
A third server has been ordered, which will also be installed in Amsterdam, but<br>
will not be part of the toolserver cluster. It's a storage server (X4540, 24TB<br>
RAID) that will keep a live backup of all media files.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Daniel<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Aude<br>