On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:55 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2 June 2011 18:48, Fae <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In 2016 San Francisco has a major earthquake and the servers and >> operational facilities for the WMF are damaged beyond repair. The >> emergency hot switchover to Hong Kong is delayed due to an ongoing DoS >> attack from Eastern European countries. The switchover eventually >> appears successful and data is synchronized with Hong Kong for the >> next 3 weeks. At the end of 3 weeks, with a massive raft of escalating >> complaints about images disappearing, it is realized that this is a >> result of local data caches expiring. The DoS attack covered the >> tracks of a passive data worm that only activates during back-up >> cycles and the loss is irrecoverable due backups aged over 2 weeks >> being automatically deleted. Due to no archive strategy it is >> estimated that the majority of digital assets have been permanently >> lost and estimates for 60% partial reconstruction from remaining cache >> snapshots and independent global archive sites run to over 2 years of >> work. > > > This sort of scenario is why some of us have a thing about the backups :-) > > (Is there a good image backup of Commons and of the larger wikis, and > - and this one may be trickier - has anyone ever downloaded said > backups?) > > > - d.
I've floated this to Erik a couple of times, but if the Foundation would like an IT disaster response / business continuity audit, I can do those. -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
