Gilles Dubuc, 03/07/2014 14:23:
Clearly, mailing the hard drive would be the most efficient way of transferring the data. If the hard drive can make it to close enough to our data center's network, anyway, which might have security implications. Is there any precedence to doing something like this?
Precedence or precedent? The precedence is "whoever wants does it first", precedents are plenty. As usual, our wikis have helpful docs. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Server-side_upload https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Uploading_large_files
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