On 12/3/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
If there's significant concern on these points, then the Wikimedia Foundation could form an exchange agreement with the IA, trading copies of the respective databases, for redundancy.
Hmm, you're suggesting taking a copy of a database consisting of several terabytes of data is preferable to copying a few webpages? Think of all that hardware...
Several petabytes, not terabytes. Several terabytes will fit in one 2U server already.
These are not large quantities of hardware, in terms of enterprise systems.