Snapshot and SiteHTML Folder

[Duncan Rounding]

This is not particular to v10 but..

Why do snapshots contain the contents of the SiteHTML folder?

[Steve G Griggs]

If it's any consolation I can't think of a valid reason. Puzzled by this as well.

[Krithika]

Hello Duncan, Steve

I'll try to explain the reason behind this.
A snapshot is a complete back-up of the shop, which includes the generated files as well, for instance the ones in the Site HTML folder. There might be situations where these files can be used for manual upload/restore, especially when the size of the actual site makes it time-consuming for all content to be regenerated.

Hope this helps.

Regards

[NormanRouxel]

I follow Krithika's explanation.

When we were using dial-up those HTML pages would take ages to upload.

To speed things up, Actinic keeps a table in the database of all the live site files, their creation dates and MD5 checksums. This lets it omit files that haven't changed from future Uploads.

I presume that table also provides that complete file list for use in the Snapshots, hence the SiteHTML ones being there.

[Steve G Griggs]

Makes sense. Thanks for explaining Krithika.