yegg@alum.mit.edu wrote:
The database dumps (http://download.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html) don't seem to have made any progress since 7/1. I realize they can appear stalled in the normal process (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps#Schedule), but in the recent past (as far as I know) they have not been stalled this long without there being something actually wrong.
Are they indeed still stuck (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-July/038625.html)?
Yep.
And is there anything I (or other community members) can do about it?
Nope. We just gotta get in and unplug it when we have a moment. Right now it's tending to stick because we're still sharing space between upload backups and download dumps.
Still waiting on the new fileservers -- this server order has been stuck for a loooong time, and we're not very happy about it...
-- brion