On 3/10/09 5:29 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Platonides<platoni...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is mediawiki table structure going to change? > > Yes, it changes on a regular basis. > >> Moreover, any more private method for sharing the tables (eg. a trigger >> deleting the row when rev_deleted is set) would precisely lose the >> backup ability the toolserver is performing. > > I don't think the toolserver is used for backups. At least I hope > it's not, given its reliability (which is quite good, but "quite good" > is scary for backups).
The existence of the replicas on toolserver is one of our backups. Obviously we want to improve our offsite backups to include complete offline snapshots as well. It's in progress. :) -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
