On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
This is a triple-crosspost. I suggest you reply to wikitech-l only.
A mistake I made caused the loss of 496 full-resolution images from Wikimedia servers.
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http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/missing-images-2008-09
If anyone has any ideas about where to find more backup files, I'd be willing to hear them. Otherwise, the community will just have to reupload as many as possible.
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I have 30 of the 496 images in that list based on an exact path match. It's possible that I have more based on hash matches for image which were moved between sites or 'renamed' after my last sync.
I have some chores to run, but I will later pull the hashes from the database and check for hash matches.
I would likely have had nearly all of them if the rsync push to me had not been down most of the year.
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