[Foundation-l] dumps

[Brian]

Its not at all clear why the english wikipedia dump or other large
dumps need to be compressed. It is far more absurd to spend hundreds
of days compressing a file than it is to spend tens of days
downloading one.

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 2/23/09 5:31 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
>> Copying the Commons list.
>>
>> I am interested in hosting (and running some scripts on) copies of the
>> commons media dump on offline regional servers for offline-reading
>> purposes.  This is difficult without an image dump.
>
> Awesome -- can you work with an rsync3-over-ssh setup? Email me and
> we'll set it up.
>
> (Reminds me -- Greg, can we make sure we've got yours going again?)
>
> -- brion
>
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