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Ask for regular backups of our Wikidata Graphite data
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Description

Problem:
The data for our Wikidata Grafana dashboards seem to not get backed up regularly. This already led to unfortunate data loss: T294355: Several Wikidata Grafana boards missing data before October 2021

Solution:
Let's backup ALL of our Graphite data to bacula as described in T294355#7531239.

Only if a full backup is really not feasible, let's make sure that at least our most important boards are covered:

Notes:
Discussions about this are happening in the original report of the error: T294355: Several Wikidata Grafana boards missing data before October 2021

Acceptance criteria:

  • All of our current and future Graphite data is updated at least weekly.

Open questions:

Event Timeline

List of Graphite metrics used by those dashboards is in T294355#7559074; in summary, we’d probably like to have all of daily.wikidata.* and daily.monthly.wikidata.* backed up (if not all of daily.*).

Manuel renamed this task from Implement regular backups of Wikidata analytics dashboard data to Ask for regular backups of our Wikidata Graphite data .Dec 10 2021, 1:33 PM
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This is complete I believe, we're backing up the daily hierarchy now