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 >>>>
