(All: I really appreciate the suggestions that have been trickling in. I've a 
pile for a lazy Saturday afternoon of research. Thanks!)

Lawrence, usable in a disaster:

That's a very important point that I didn't bother to mention about my home 
grown solution because I figured it was a 'yeah right, no way' feature.

In my home-grown solution: As each item is saved, the system maintains an 
off-to-the-side tree of directories; by year, month, date, dir name composed 
from the item name. In there is a text file with a text version of the item 
contents and all attachments from the item. That tree is then periodically 
(daily) sync'd to some critical notebooks and to our file server. So in a 
disaster, when I'm standing in the colo with no internet -- or with no intranet 
web infrastructure, etc. -- that local tree of knowledge is at hand and 
searchable. Particularly useful in that tree have been the session log from the 
work done yesterday on something that has now crashed, the PDF explaining the 
custom kernel compilation steps to go with fancy IODrive cards, etc.

--Craig Constantine, http://constantine.name


On May 7, 2013, at 2:59 PM, "Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng." <[email protected]> wrote:

We use doku...partly because its supposed to still be usable in a disaster 
(though nobody is maintaining such copies or have ever tested such.)

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