(There are now some discussions about making mirrors of uploads, so I'm bringing up this old thread)
On 16/01/09 10:50, Daniel Kinzler wrote:
A third server has been ordered, which will also be installed in Amsterdam, but will not be part of the toolserver cluster. It's a storage server (X4540, 24TB RAID) that will keep a live backup of all media files.
On 17/01/09 06:06, Aude schrieb:
I'm intrigued by the third server, which will keep copies of all media files. Right now, as I understand it, copies of images and media files on commons and elsewhere are not backed up. In September, 496 files were lost from commons, and the developers were asking around if anyone had backup copies and asking uploaders to re-upload. (http://www.nabble.com/Massive-image-loss-td19328360.html)
Will the new media file backup server address this sort of problem? Or being a live backup, will it suffer from the same issues/mistakes that affect the main Wikimedia servers?
-Aude
What's the status of this server? It doesn't seem to match any on https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Servers Is toolserver cluster currently syncing wikimedia uploads? How is it doing so?