On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)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.
[snip]
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.
[snip]
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.
:(