On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 02:56:39PM -0400, Lightning wrote:
> Daniel Mayer wrote:
>
> >At http://download.wikipedia.org/ I noticed that:
> >
> >Last dump made: 2003-07-13 (15 days ago)
> >
> >If this had been a hard drive crash....
> >
> good point. How do backups work? is the server ever backed up, or just
> the datadumps and then kinda like "lets hope someone downloaded the db
> sup today"?
>
normally Brion is doing the backup. He dumps the database during a downtime
and burns the dump onto some CDs.
Regards,
JeLuF