On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 08:59 -0600, Kasimir Gabert wrote:
What should everyone using dumps do in the meantime, before image dumps are available?
Use the 2005 dump, or don't use images.
Besides, at 400+ GiB for the current enwiki images, why would you want to download this? Do you really have 1/2TB of storage to hold them? And can you wait the 2 months it will take to download them all?
It would be cheaper/faster/easier on bandwidth to just send them a drive and have them copy the files onto it, at some charge for the labor/time to do so.