Offsite Backups
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
| − | See also [[Offsite Backups (old)]] | + | *See also [[Offsite Backups (old)]] |
| + | *Random discussions | ||
| + | **[[m:mailarchive:pipermail/foundation-l/2009-May/051683.html|[Foundation-l] Long-term archiving of Wikimedia content]] (2009) | ||
| + | **[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&oldid=523491562#Nanoscale_printing_of_Wikipedia Nanoscale printing of Wikipedia] (2012) | ||
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Revision as of 13:23, 17 November 2012
Planning notes for offsite backups. This is a draft, edit heavily please.
Overview
Our backup strategy has several components:
- replication, for immediate failover in case of hardware or power failure
- snapshots, for fast restoration after data corruption
- off site backups, for protection against undiscovered long-term corruption, malicious destruction of data, and for historical archiving
Requirements
- Old backups are kept around forever (every six months? every year?)
- Backups are off-line and inaccessible to WMF employees, volunteers, hackers, etc.
- Media is durable for decades (or provision is made for periodic copying)
- Archive format will be readable for decades (or provision is made for periodic conversion)
- ...?
Notes
- See also Offsite Backups (old)
- Random discussions
