Re: [cowiki-dev] The coWiki.org page

On 6/29/05, Vish Vishvanath <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nah, I'm still here
> 
> The backups are now taken once a day of the database and kept on the
> server.
> 
> Despite enquiries in plain english, I have NO IDEA what Sy and DTG
> are talking about regarding the data loss, none at all.
> 
> To be perfectly, I couldn't give a flying toss - unless there's
> something I don't know, it's not rocket science to rewrite a page.
> 
> vv

The main page magically reverted to an earlier revision while
destroying the content and history of the current revision.  This has
happened a second time since the first report.

The page was edited several times over a few weeks and being the
single most important page on cowiki.org, it was a minor work of art. 
At the very least, it was a horrible slap in the face to see that work
vanish.

Now, having said that I can go ahead and begin rewriting it.. as they
say in the wiki world .. I can "be bold" and if something bothers me I
can go ahead and fix it.

I've not done this because I had hoped that it was easy to restore the
page from a backup and also because I was really depressed about
losing my work.


Now.. the way things look, I'm going to begin rewriting that page. 
But until this bug is tracked down and fixed, could we please look
into making the process of restoring a single page a little easier?

Actually, if it were possible to have a read-only time-shifted version
of the server that would solve this problem perfectly.  A secondary
wiki which is using a data backup from a week ago would probably do
it.  I know that's easy to say.. is it any easier compared to fishing
for a single page from a backup?