For folks who have not been following the saga on
http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Dataset1
we were able to get the raid array back in service last night on the XML
data dumps server, and we are now busily copying data off of it to
another host. There's about 11T of dumps to copy over; once that's done
we will start serving these dumps read-only to the public again.
Because the state of the server hardware is still uncertain, we don't
want to do anything that might put the data at risk until that copy has
been made.
The replacement server is on order and we are watching that closely.
We have also been working on deploying a server to run one round of
dumps in the interrim.
Thanks for your patience (which is a way of saying, I know you are all
out of patience, as am I, but hang on just a little longer).
Ariel