[wp-hackers] [Gsoc Idea] Tagging/Taking a snapshot of WP installation

[Justin Shreve]

>> Such a backup doesn’t include users without posts. An SQL dump would more
useful.

That could be part of the project - to improve the backup system to do
things such as users without posts and whatever else might be missing

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Thomas Scholz <info at toscho.de> wrote:

> Ankit Ahuja:
>
>
>  What this basically means is being able to take a snapshot of a WP
>> installation at any particular time and then being able to revert back to
>> it
>> if something bad happens ( say files are deleted or the blog is hacked )
>>
>
> Sounds good.
>
>
>  The snapshot will include the following files:
>>
>> 1. WP Core Files
>>
>
> […]
>
>
>  The reason to include all of the core and plugin files is
>> because of the nasty hacks that can introduce code at hard to find places.
>>
>
> But why not use <http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/>?
>
>
>  4. Maybe a content XML ( the one that is produced as part of the Export
>> process )
>>
>
> Such a backup doesn’t include users without posts. An SQL dump would more
> useful.
>
> Thomas
>
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