langcog / wordbank

open repository of children's vocabulary data
http://wordbank.stanford.edu
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versioning #239

Closed mcfrank closed 2 years ago

mcfrank commented 2 years ago

we would like to have a versioning system for the WB database. our solution is to save periodic named snapshots of the database and to try to minimize updates in between these so that people can never to these updates.

summarizing our discussions:

mcfrank commented 2 years ago

we will also fix the website to reflect this!

HenryMehta commented 2 years ago

@mcfrank You can just take manual snapshots of an RDS database and store them as snapshots in the RDS area. They are easy to recover to a new RDS database from there

mcfrank commented 2 years ago

@JMankewitz will add the documentation via a PR