Date:         Sat, 29 May 2010 06:13:03 -0700
Reply-To:     Steve Williams <sbw@SBW.ORG>
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From:         Steve Williams <sbw@SBW.ORG>
Subject:      Re: VanagonWiki.net in full effect
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At 05:12 AM 5/29/2010, Edward Maglott wrote:
>... poof the wiki was gone and there was no backup.  It makes me
>reluctant to spend much time ... Is the new wiki better protected?

I understand how that'd make you skeptical!

The new wiki's content is backed up nightly to my Gmail account (as
an SQL dump).  I'll be glad to instead send that backup to a Gmail
account shared by several of the Vanagon people, so not just one
person is responsible.

As for the images and other uploaded files, those are backed up
irregularly, but I can set it up to send those to Gmail periodically, too.

If the new wiki goes down, anyone with Mediawiki should be able to
bring it back up fairly quickly, even if I'm not around.  Or migrate
it to another wiki platform, if necessary.