At the current rate of work on the persistence layer you have another few years before the file format changes.
Anyway, I am not aware of there being another method (unless you want to write your own robot to fetch wave snapshots for every wave) of exporting that is built into trunk. Something you could look into is the HTML renderer in Yuri's server (waveinabox.net) which you could use to backup in a HTML format (though again you need a tool do the actual scraping). On 24 February 2012 16:59, Sohum Banerjea <[email protected]> wrote: > Mostly because: > > # Currently supported delta store types: memory, file > # Note: file system support is experimental. Your server may crash. > And the file format is > # not stable and shouldn't be relied upon for long-term storage yet; > upcoming changes will > # require you to blow away your data. > > On 25 February 2012 02:48, Ali Lown <[email protected]> wrote: >> Why not setup a cron task to tar the _attachments and _deltas folders? >> >> Untar'ing them back into the WIAB folder would 'restore' it to the previous >> state? >> On Feb 24, 2012 4:32 PM, "Sohum Banerjea" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Alternatively, could there be some other way to regularly back up a >>> WIAB server in a standard format? This is basically the "I want to use >>> file _deltas and don't mind losing a day's work when the time comes to >>> blow the file cache" request. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -Sohum >>>
