Currently the files have been copied off of the server onto a backup host, which is the only reason we feel safe about serving them again.
We will be getting a new host (it is due to be shipped soon) which will host the live data. The current server will have a backup copy. That is the short term answer to your question. In the longer term we expect to have a redundant copy elsewhere and cease to rely on dataset1 whatsoever.
We are interested in other mirrors of the dumps; see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps
Ariel
Στις 15-12-2010, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 21:16 +0100, ο/η masti έγραψε:
Good news, but looking form a professional point of view having them just on array will be leading to such outages. Any idea to have a tape backup or mirror?
masti
On 12/15/2010 08:57 PM, Ariel T. Glenn wrote:
We now have a copy of the dumps on a backup host. Although we are still resolving hardware issues on the XML dumps server, we think it is safe enough to serve the existing dumps read-only. DNS was updated to that effect already; people should see the dumps within the hour.
Ariel
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