<quote who="Gottfried Szing"> > >I just install moin and the README has a task that says to warn when > >upgrading because the wiki does not always work properly when upgraded. > >This is a serious concern, data preservation is all important. > > to jeff: this was one of the reasons why we have decided to use a wiki > which uses a db as backend.
How many times have you ported a database from one schema to another? That's a *difficult* process, even when you have scripts provided by the software author. > another reason was that IMHO it is easier to move the db to another > hardware (separation of frontend and backend) or a new server. if the > server that is containing the data runs out of space, moving all the data > to a new server and just changing the db-connection settings is easier to > do than moving a whole filesystem and mounting via NFS or SMB or sth else. Or making a tarball and copying it across? Wiki source compresses well. ;-) > and IMHO using a DB as backend is not a bad idea in the first place: AFAIK > wikipedia.org uses also a DB as a backend and there it seems to work. Due to a very specific, highly scalable use case for which they can justify the cost of maintaining the infrastructure required. :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2005: Canberra, Australia http://linux.conf.au/ "Basically my philosophy on release management is that it should be like police brutality." - Maciej Stachowiak -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
