Hi,
since October 9 no german dump is available. The last dumping at November 14 failed and thne last general status of http://download.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html is from December 5th.
Please can someone tell us, when dumping will be continued? Or has the address of the download page changed?
Thank you!
jo
Jochen Magnus wrote:
Hi,
since October 9 no german dump is available. The last dumping at November 14 failed and thne last general status of http://download.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html is from December 5th.
Please can someone tell us, when dumping will be continued? Or has the address of the download page changed?
I'm out of the office this week during my cross-country move; I'll check up on things on Monday and make sure a German dump gets started.
-- brion
Brion Vibber wrote:
Jochen Magnus wrote:
since October 9 no german dump is available. The last dumping at November 14 failed and thne last general status of http://download.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html is from December 5th.
Please can someone tell us, when dumping will be continued? Or has the address of the download page changed?
I'm out of the office this week during my cross-country move; I'll check up on things on Monday and make sure a German dump gets started.
Started it a couple hours ago.
There were a couple of issues combining:
1) The main dumps sever (benet) crashed on December 6. It was rebooted, but the monitor process that updates the progress list wasn't restarted.
As a result, dumps continued running (in a single worker thread on another box), but without being listed on the status page.
2) One of our secondary file servers (storage2) had filled up; this contains both a backup of the wiki file uploads (from amane) and the dump data for German Wikipedia.
We're starting to split upload data between the main server (amane) and a secondary (storage1) due to pressing against the size limits, so I'm also trimming down the on-site backup on storage2. For now I'm removing the thumbs from the backup, as they aren't really necessary (though it'd be nice to not have to regenerate them all in a failover situation!)
With space available again, I restarted the German Wikipedia dump on a new worker thread.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
Brion Vibber wrote:
With space available again, I restarted the German Wikipedia dump on a new worker thread.
... and the main dump server appears to have nicely crashed again. Symptoms look like a disk or filesystem problem (anything involving disk access hangs or dies, but the machine stays on the net and accepts connections which never go anywhere). Having it rebooted; we may have to replace it.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:12:51PM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
... and the main dump server appears to have nicely crashed again. Symptoms look like a disk or filesystem problem (anything involving disk access hangs or dies, but the machine stays on the net and accepts connections which never go anywhere). Having it rebooted; we may have to replace it.
For what it's worth, that sounds like the same set of symptoms I saw last year on a drive on my sister's MythTV box. One drive, if you accessed anywhere in a specific range of sectors, would knock the IDE controller offline: you could no longer access *anything on any drive*, until you rebooted, at which point you were golden, until you accessed those sectors again.
Worked on 2 different motherboards, with 2 different chipsets, under Linux, Windows, and Spinrite's FreeDOS. Clearly it was hardware, but I've never seen it happen ever any other time in 20 years.
Cheers, -- jra
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