On Jul 3, 2013, at 9:57 PM, gnosygnu gnosygnu@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone.
I'm wondering if there's any update on the image dumps from http://ftpmirror.your.org/. They were being generated on a somewhat monthly basis from April 2012 - December 2012. The last complete set was in December 2012 [1]. I believe there was a January 2013 post [2] that indicated there was an issue at the hosting web site. Was there an outcome, or is the situation still in progress?
The image dumps were incredibly useful (though also extremely large). I can understand if monthly updates were too much, but I'm hoping they will be available again -- perhaps on a quarterly / semi-annual basis?
[1] http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/fulls/20121201/ [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2013-January/000665.html
We've got our hardware back up, but during our outage the Wikimedia folks did a datacenter move. The source where we were grabbing all the images from isn't running right now, so there's no new image data to build new tarballs from. As soon as the Wikimedia people get their image set available, I believe Ariel's plan is to get the tarballs building again.
-- Kevin Your.Org