Robert Rohde wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Nikola Smolenski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Monday 01 December 2008 04:09:11 Robert Rohde wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Neil Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >> wrote: >> >>>> Is the data replicated anywhere outside the Tampa data centre (such as >>>> in Amsterdam or Seoul)? If not, just one fire, flood or hurricane could >>>> destroy the entire en: Wikipedia. >>>> >>> There are database mirrors of every wiki, including en, as part of the >>> toolserver cluster in Amsterdam. >>> >> Unfortunately, enwiki mirror doesn't include article text :( >> > > Ouch, I hadn't realized they gave up on text replication. Apparently > quite a while ago too. (That will teach me for never bothering to > learn to use the toolserver.) > > So I guess we are back to the meteor impact destroys Wikipedia scenario. > > -Robert Rohde > That's scary: are there any off-site backups of the full database, including the article text, made anywhere, other than the constantly failing dumps? Given that Wikipedia is the Wikimedia Foundation's principal asset, I would hope that fixing this single point of failure would be a priority for the Foundation.
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