On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 06:42:54PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
I'd like to know when Wikimedia is going to have working internal backups again, and when images can be pushed to some third party (such as myself) once more, so that future data loss can be avoided.
The new servers have arrived and are being installed. There are two media servers, ms1 and ms2. ms1 is master, ms2 is slave. We use ZFS send and receive to copy the data from ms1 to ms2. There are different levels of snapshots (minutely, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly) that can be used to restore files. We're still having problems with making the directories readable on ms2. zfs receive unmounts the filesystem, and it fails, if it fails to unoumnt the filesystem. Queueing the updates for a day and unmounting the filesystem once every 24h to import the filesystem might be a suitable way to provide an rsync service.
The following wikipedias have already been migrated to the new server:
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Regards,
jens