[Foundation-l] Wikimedia mirrors

[John Vandenberg]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/

Kudos to Milos & Wikimedia Serbia!!

> 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).

The key would be to allow the mirrors to delete their mirror when they
need to use their excess storage capability.  If they let us know in
advance that they are reclaiming the space, another organisation with
excess storage capability can take over.

--
John Vandenberg