[Toolserver-l] New hardware ordered

[Platonides]

(There are now some discussions about making mirrors of uploads, so I'm 
bringing up this old thread)

On 16/01/09 10:50, Daniel Kinzler wrote:
 >     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.

On 17/01/09 06:06, Aude schrieb:
> 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

What's the status of this server? It doesn't seem to match any on 
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Servers
Is toolserver cluster currently syncing wikimedia uploads? How is it 
doing so?