[Zope-CMF] Re: [Plone-users] Date based snapshots

[Dylan Jay]

"Paul Winkler" <pw_lists at slinkp.com> wrote in message
news:20040503145305.GA1684 at slinkp.com...
> On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 03:57:43PM +1000, Dylan Jay wrote:
> > I have a requirement to be able to view an entire site as it was a
certain
> > date including pictures etc. One way would be just to copy the site and
> > windback the data.fs. Is there some other way this could be done via a
UI
> > sort of like a reverse Vesion object?
>
> Nothing out of the box.
> My first thought would be something like:
>
> - take daily backups of your database
> - use DBTab to mount the backups read-only at different folders

I don't think this is going to work as things like portal_catalog and
portal_workflow have to viewed at they were too. You could have a seperate
plone site for each folder I guess but that is probably a lot of storage.
Certainly worth thinking about.