Page, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:36 Bob McElrath wrote: > > > > Is the backup at http://axiom.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/ and the > > main mathaction wiki synchronized? i.e. if someone makes > > a change on the axiom.risc.uni-linz.ac.at site, does it > > get propagated to the main site? > > Yes, I am using ZSyncer on both sites. Right now the process > is still manual - mostly due to a problem involving > "last_modified_date" on ZWiki pages separated by 7 timezones. > I am planning to synchronize the two sites at least once per > week. In the future I think this can be largely automated > (except for edit conflicts). Eventually we might get software > that makes this easier.
I tried to automate it with my mcelrath.org mirror but the problem I had
was with authentication, I think.
> I have thought about how best to use the new mirror site
> and I strongly believe that it should be a full and
> completely accessible mirror of the main Axiom site.
> Keeping a live mirror provides the incentive to keep the
> backup site up to date. It is ready to go and immediately
> in case of any problems with the other site. In the future
> if they are allowed to diverge in content I also think
> that is not necessarily such a bad thing - provided that
> both sites remain open and accessible.
In every instance where someone has made a "backup" site that I have
seen, it just causes confusion for users, and eventually drifts until
they aren't the same, causing further confusion.
For some reason bizarre physicists do this a lot. I think it's a bad
idea. ...Just my 2 cents.
Links to the other site for large downloads would be a good idea though.
> Perhaps some users will feel a greater affinity for a web
> server that is physically closer to them?
On the web, who can tell?
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Cheers,
Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]
"It is almost universally felt that when we call a country
democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every
kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they
might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one
meaning." -- George Orwell
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