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

On 6/30/05, Vish Vishvanath <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm glad you understand the predicament.  I'm going to begin
refactoring the main page and I will keep a secondary non-public
duplicate of that page on cowiki.org.

> > 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?
> 
> Time-shifting in the sense of having a staging server which pushes
> changes to the live server on command, for example? Quite possible -
> people come up with ways and means?

Hmm.. that's not quite what I mean.  Imagine something like this:

http://monday.cowiki.org

monday is a snapshot of the last monday's database, and is updated
every monday via a script.  It is a snapshot of that 12:01am every
monday.

Again, I do not know if this is harder or easier than the current
backup method.  What I'm thinking is that this may be easier to
restore one-off pages from.


This is somewhat moot.  Now that I have virtualisation being set up on
my main computer, I can have a few coWiki sandboxes, and restoring a
database dump will be easy for me.  I just thought I'd clarify this
idea because it was interesting.