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