[Toolserver-l] New hardware ordered

[Aude]

I'm intrigued by the third server, which will keep copies of all media
files.  Right now, as I understand it, copies of images and media files on
commons and elsewhere are not backed up. In September, 496 files were lost
from commons, and the developers were asking around if anyone had backup
copies and asking uploaders to re-upload. (
http://www.nabble.com/Massive-image-loss-td19328360.html)

Will the new media file backup server address this sort of problem?  Or
being a live backup, will it suffer from the same issues/mistakes that
affect the main Wikimedia servers?

-Aude

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Daniel Kinzler <daniel at brightbyte.de>wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I'm happy to let you know that new hardware has been ordered by Wikimedia
> Deutschland and will arrive probably in about two weeks. We will get two
> new
> systems:
>
> * A more powerful web server, to replace hemlock: Sun Fire X4150, 2x
> Quad-Core
> Xeon, 8GB RAM, 2x73GB SAS HDD. The current web server only has two cores.
> * Another database server, to be used for S1 (english wikipedia), so S1 and
> S3
> no longer have to share a server: Sun Fire X4250, 2x Quad-Core Xeon, 32GB
> RAM,
> 16x146GB SAS RAID.
>
> This should improve performance and give us some head space for growth.
> Once the
> new servers arrive, S3 will be re-imported too, so we will have live data
> again.
>
> Any ideas for names? To stay with the nightshade theme, how about Jurubeba
> and
> Erubia? Or perhaps we go the "witches' weed" way, with Datura and Mandrake?
> Henbane is taken, i think. Amanita sounds nice, too :)
>
> A third server has been ordered, which will also be installed in Amsterdam,
> but
> will not be part of the toolserver cluster. It's a storage server (X4540,
> 24TB
> RAID) that will keep a live backup of all media files.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
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Aude
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