Hoi,
Those copies are in the same location *that *is scary
Not good.
Thanks,
GerardM
2008/12/16 Hay (Husky) <huskyr(a)gmail.com>
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 <daniel(a)brightbyte.de>
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contains a big warning about being seriously out of date.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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