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From: Ivor Williams
Subject: RE: [grubstreet] Grubstreet outage - update
Date: 17:19 on 21 Jan 2003

On Tuesday, January 21, 2003 5:04 PM, Roger Burton West 
[SMTP:roger@xxxxxxxxx.xxx] wrote:
> Pardon a new user's ignorance: in what format are the data stored, and
> would it be possible to do automatic periodic backups? (Considering last
> September's problems as well...)

I gather that Tantrix's ISP does do backups, see 
http://hummous.earth.li/pipermail/grubstreet/2002-December/000114.html

In terms of the underlying data platform, Grubstreet is a Usemod wiki, which 
uses flat files. However, Kake is working on a replacement using CGI::Wiki, to 
use MySQL - which could also use PostgreSQL or DBD::SQLLite.

Hope this helps,

Ivor.

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[grubstreet] Grubstreet outage - update Kate L Pugh 16:45 on 21 Jan 2003
Some of you may have noticed that grubstreet's been inaccessible since
- RE: [grubstreet] Grubstreet outage - update Ivor Williams 16:57 on 21 Jan 2003
  I hoovered the Grubstreet RecentChanges to my offline clone over the weekend.
- Re: [grubstreet] Grubstreet outage - update Roger Burton West 17:03 on 21 Jan 2003
  Pardon a new user's ignorance: in what format are the data stored, and
- RE: [grubstreet] Grubstreet outage - update Ivor Williams 17:19 on 21 Jan 2003
  I gather that Tantrix's ISP does do backups, see
- Re: [grubstreet] Grubstreet outage - update Alex McLintock 18:25 on 21 Jan 2003
  Um, well, I don't know anything about this for certain but from speaking to
- Roger Burton West 22:25 on 24 Jan 2003
  Erm... it seems to be back.