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You have a website, it's large and has other people adding and removing products. Inevitably an accident occures and pages of your site are deleted off of your current website. What happens then and how easily the lost information can be reteived is an important aspect to consider for your web-publishing platform.
Some conventional thinking has it that a database is better suited for this task, but for reasons even we didn't fully understand at the time, went in the other direction for the IG edit platform. We use folder based structures. Having recently vetted the database process, we can state with certainty that an IG/Windows folders based data structure _is_ the superior method and easier to backup and restore than a conventional database.
With the ability to automate the archiving of zip files accross a private back-channel, to unzip, extract and move lost data is now more easily done through Windows Explorer and pk-zip thus vastly simplifies the task of reteiving lost data in comparison with dealing with MS-SQL Enterprise Manager.
PK-ZIP:
PK-ZIP can be automated through Windows scheduler to zip the data structure into one compressed and contiguous file. Often for large sites, this is the safer method. Yet in Windows Explorer you'll be able to double-click the archive file from the day you want to restore from and then once in PK-Zip extract whatever files were lost. Save and copy them to appropriate location using Windows Explorer, and the data is back. Try to do that in a database {:}-]!
Windows Explorer
The use of Windows Explorer and PK-Zip is much better understood by most computer users than are database restore operations in MS-SQL Enterprise Manager, PHP's MY-SQL is a little closer but still "vague" to the end user.
In order to facilitate Windows Explorer based backup inspection and repair, we run a private backup LAN out to one of the facilities' stand alone buildings. We run batch files in Windows scheduler to a mapped drive in the remote facility. To inspect, select and restore, the only requirement is knowledge of Windows Explorer and knowledge of basic IG powered website folder structure.
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