Thread:User talk:Svick/Incremental dumps/Consider remote backups as well

This project would be a really big win for the Wikimedia ecosystem. I would also recommend you consider remote dumps as well. I've been building a wiki that monitors other wikis called WikiApiary. I recently added the ability to backup any wikis monitored by WikiApiary. It works great, and I'm using the dumpgenerator.py code from wikiteam. The biggest problem with this, especially since it is remote via the API is that it does not allow incrementals. Adding support for incrementals would be a huge win for this and would allow remote backup of thousands of wikis without undue load.