elwp@gmx.de writes:
Two recent posts about incremental backups:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2003-September/006036.html
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2003-December/007134.html
Is anyone still working on it?
This all is much to complicate and resource hungry. Simply dump the raw article (plus meta info) into a CVS system and let the user fetch the files with a simple "cvs up". And a simple shell script (awk/sed/python) can fetch the local CVS files into the database.
I wonder how fast CVS is with so many small files. And I doubt that the scripts that have to be develped to mirror the database to CVS on the server and to put the files back to the database on the client machine are much simpler than my programs, but you are welcome to write them, of course. :-)
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