Hi all,
Fae brought this up: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67477
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?
Hi Gilles,
Fae brought this up: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67477
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?
Yes, this has happened in the past. I recall André Costa from Sweden (cc-ed) did that for the LSH GLAM donation [1] but I believe there was others.
Maybe Rob or Roan could tell you more on this.
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading/LSH
Related links: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-August/067359.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Server-side_upload
On Jul 3, 2014 8:34 AM, "Jean-Frédéric" jeanfrederic.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Fae brought this up: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67477
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?
Yes, this has happened in the past. I recall André Costa from Sweden
(cc-ed) did that for the LSH GLAM donation [1] but I believe there was others.
Maybe Rob or Roan could tell you more on this.
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading/LSH
Related links: <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-August/067359.html
We have had this happen for a few things. We did a large scale image import from mailed disks, as well as transferring Wikimania presentation videos. (By we, I totally mean Roan, I just connected the disks to a server.)
If this is something we would want to do with this, someone needs to own the import part of the project (I don't want to just suggest Roan for this for all future imports ;) The disk(s) would be shipped (NOT USPS) to our Ashburn datacenter directly. (Though we have to know about it when it is incoming, and open an inbound shipment ticket.) USPS and the DC for deliveries are not ideal. If the item has to ship USPS, I suggest it go to the office. Then it can be shipped UPS or FedEx to the datacenter.
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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