Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Er. I've maintained a non-WMF disaster recovery archive for a long > time, though its no longer completely current since the rsync went > away and web fetching is lossy.
And the box run out of disk space. We could try until it fills again, though. A sysadmin fixing images with wrong hashes would also be nice https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17057#c3 > It saved our rear a number of times, saving thousands of images from > irreparable loss. Moreover it allowed things like image hashing before > we had that in the database, and it would allow perceptual lossy hash > matching if I ever got around to implementing tools to access the > output. IMHO the problem is not accessing it, but hashing those terabytes of images. > There really are use cases. Moreover, making complete copies of the > public data available as dumps to the public is a WMF board supported > initiative. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
