On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Osama Khalid osamak@gnu.org wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:00:38AM +1000, John Vandenberg wrote:
A mirror system would be great; that is how project gutenberg, linux and sf.net do disaster recovery. It is simple, cheap and effective.
What about history data and other logs? I'm afraid that mirrors may not be the best way to copy all of them.
We would need to mirror the database dumps available from
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html
The toolserver (run by the German chapter) has a 'live' copy of the databases, so that would likely be the first recovery option.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver
Is the toolserver database missing any data which would be needed to reconstruct a wikimedia project, other than the images?
The main potential problem with a replicated copy, like the toolserver, is that it can replicate the problem that occurred on the primary database.
-- John Vandenberg