[Foundation-l] Wikimedia mirrors

[Aude]

On Sep 16, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> I entirely agree that full, distributed backups of all content in
> Wikimedia projects are a top priority.
>
> This shouldn't only include the publicly available dumps, but also a
> regular secure off-site backup of "Wikimedia in a box" (essentially
> everything needed to restore a fully operating network of sites -- all
> data, software, documentation).  This is already part of our
> operations planning, but it doesn't exist yet.
>
> For privacy reasons, we can't back up all data everywhere (e.g. user
> account information) -- it might be worth thinking about longer term
> strategies for portability of that data (e.g. a group of unaffiliated
> entrusted individuals who hold encryption keys). But, for the publicly
> available dumps, I don't see a list of mirrors prominently linked from
> http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html -- I think starting a
> page at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps/Mirrors with
> mirroring instructions (if such a page doesn't already exist
> somewhere), prominently highlighting it at dumps.wikimedia.org, and
> spreading the word would be a good start. We are already generating
> MD5s, so it shouldn't be hard for engaged community members to help
> with standard/policy setting, verification of mirror status, etc.

Thank you Erik!

@aude

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