MZMcBride wrote:
John Vandenberg wrote:
The key would be to allow the mirrors to delete their mirror when they need to use their excess storage capability. If they let us know in advance that they are reclaiming the space, another organisation with excess storage capability can take over.
Surely I don't need to be the one to point out that another huge issue with mirrors is that they often replicate bad information ("John Doe is a rapist", etc.). The mirrors you all are talking about sound like they'd update fairly regularly. Some of the current (unofficial) mirrors, however, have a horrible tendency to import once and then linger forever.
MZMcBride
If they are not live mirrors which will go down when they can't connect to wikipedia on-the-fly to scrape their data (so they aren't really mirroring anything).
John wrote:
IIRC, it Greg Maxwell who had (some of?) the images that the Foundation lost when a bug was rolled into production.
Yes. He has a partial copy of the images.
George wrote:
If there's interest in an offline discussion on IT disasters and disaster recovery and reliability engineering, I can do that, but it should be offline from Foundation-L...
This thread should move to wikitech-l or xmldatadumps-l