Offsite Backups (old)

Wikimedia is starting to use external partners to allow for better disaster recovery and quicker response time in case of a data center wide failure. The first large scale case use is being proxied thorough a company named eBart.

eBart

• Hostname: wintermute.ebart.co.rs / wm (has to be accessed through a bastion host for now)
• Primary Contact: Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com
  • Phone: Buisness +38164822939 Personal +381656455674
• Secondary Contact Branislav Jovanovic branej@gmail.com
  • Phone: +381604828520
• Tertiary Contact Nikola Blagojevic nblagojevic@arhiv.rs
  • Phone: 381648220904
• User access: tomasz
• Type of access: ssh
• Space: 6.9T

The plan for this is to have a snapshot of Commons available offsite if anything should happen to our data center. The total allotted space should reach upwards of 10T's in the next months as more drives are added to the system. Ideally this off site will host both a snapshot of Commons and possibly an archive of the XML snapshots.

Notes on coverage:

• Between 10 and 17 CET/CEST (between 08-09 and 15-16 UTC) ability to reset the machine quickly.
• Between 07 and 01 CET/CEST (between 05-06 and 23-00 UTC) ability to contact other staff with a 20 minute window to reboot.

Status

I'm currently pushing our archives of 2008 XML snapshots as the first set of speed tests. After those are in place we'll come up how to organize this in a more automated fashion. --Tomasz Finc 18:24, 8 July 2009 (UTC)