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

[John]

Ill run a quick benchmark and import the full history of simple.wikipedia
to my laptop wiki on a stick, and give an exact duration


On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:26 AM, John <phoenixoverride at gmail.com> wrote:

> Toolserver is a clone of the wmf servers minus files. they run a database
> replication of all wikis. these times are dependent on available hardware
> and may very, but should provide a decent estimate
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> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
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>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:18 AM, John <phoenixoverride at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > take a look at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_XML_dumpsfor
>> > 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.
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>> Toolserver doesn't have full history, does it?
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