[Foundation-l] Wikimedia mirrors

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

John Vandenberg, 16/09/2010 03:00:
> English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portugeuse, Swedish and
> Chinese Wikipedia all appear to have some mirrors, but are any of them
> reliable enough to be used for disaster recovery?

Obviously not, at least Italian ones.

> The smaller projects are easier to backup, as they are smaller.  I am
> sure that with a little effort and coordination, chapters,
> universities and similar organisations would be willing to routinely
> backup a subset of projects, and combined we would have multiple
> current backups of all projects.

I agree. Now we have only this: 
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/21606/
How many TB are needed? I don't know what's the average, but e.g. right 
now my university should have about 50 TB of free disk space (which is 
not so much, after all).

Nemo