On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:07:19AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The wiki I'm working with (wiki.lyx.org) suffered a problem for a week
because the host machine was down. In this situation it would have been
good to have been able refer people to a secondary wiki, or a backup wiki.
Has anyone tried to implement or use something like this?
I'm thinking of a system that quickly lets you set up the wiki on a second
machine, accept changes and then transfer these changes back to the
original machine when it gets back up again.
If you could ensure that the backup machine only had editing enabled (or
was only visible) when the main machine went down, then it could be done
by using something like rsync or unison to copy files between the
machines. Since PmWiki is file-based, one could simply copy the pmwiki
directory (including wiki.d etc) from the "master" machine to the
"slave" machine, once you had the slave machine set up to actually run
the wiki.
I just realised that there are some limitations here... For instance, I
have many InterMap prefixes pointing to e.g. wiki.lyx.org defined with
Site/InterMap. These would also have to be changed.
Even just a non-editable rsync'ed copy is tougher than I expected (if you
want all links to work).
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
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