Ah! Thank you, that is good to know. We'll use the file layer for now,
and let's hope we can find and report many bugs :D

On 25 February 2012 03:04, Ali Lown <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>>>

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