[Wikimedia-l] Fire Drill Re: Wikimedia sites not easy to archive (Was Re: Knol is closing tomorrow )

[John]

take a look at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_XML_dumps for
exactly how to import an existing dump, I know the process of re-importing
a cluster for the toolserver is normally just a few days when they have the
needed dumps.

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:13 AM, John
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> wrote:

> that two week estimate was given worst case scenario. Given the best case
> we are talking as little as a few hours for the smaller wikis to 5 days or
> so for a project the size of enwiki. (see
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2012-May/000491.htmlfor progress on image dumps`)
>
>
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:03:02AM -0400, John wrote:
>> > Except for files, getting a content clone up is relativity easy, and
>> can be
>> > done in a fairly quick order (aka less than two weeks for everything). I
>> > know there is talk about getting a rsync setup for images.
>>
>> Ouch, 2 weeks. We need the images to be replicable too though. <scratches
>> head>
>>
>>
>> sincerely,
>>        Kim Bruning
>>
>>
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