On 06/27/2011 01:07 PM, emijrp wrote:
Yes, a distributed project would be probably the best solution, but it is not easy to develop, unless you use a library like bittorrent, or similar and you have many peers. Althought most of the people don't seed the files long time, so sometimes is better to depend on a few committed persons than a big but ephemeral crowd.
If you create a way to sync images partially (let's say, the base letters inside of the directory structure), a couple of dozens of Wikimedians could create a couple of dozens of backups. I could host on my personal computer ~500GB, which approximates one letter.