--On February 3, 2005 1:31:45 PM +0200 Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 3, 2005, at 08:09, James Snell wrote: > >> What is the model for archiving with Atom? > > What's the *point* in archiving with Atom compared to eg. a zip archive with > some HTML or XHTML files in it (with relative links and a stipulation that > index.html and index.xhtml are magic names)?
Cross-platform dump and load. Saving data that is in the database and not in the HTML. Backups. Dump and reload for an upgrade with a DB schema change. Consistent save from a live database (hold a read lock while you dump the archive). Insurance against your blog service going away on short notice. Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for corporate blogs (internal and external). And of course, so Brewster Kahle can keep a copy. The Wayback Machine has saved my butt a couple of times. wunder -- Walter Underwood Principal Architect, Verity
