I use TWiki for storing lots of images. When I back up my Twiki site regularly, the size baloons by a factor of two because I have loads of archive ( ,v ) files which serve no purpose for me - in fact I RARELY store a second version of an image.

I guess I could delete them all, but then TWiki gets consufed in the rare case I want to do something (update, move, etc.) with the file.

Sooo, as a general solution, why can't twiki only create the archive file when the user makes a change to the original? That is, when I upload foo.gif, that's the only file stored. Then if I happen to change it, Twiki can (as normal) create foo.gif,v.

-- MattWalsh - 09 Sep 2002

I noticed this as well - I sometimes use a laptop TWiki as an easy way of transferring files of 50-plus megabytes on customer sites. I would like a way of turning off the RCS archive completely.

-- RichardDonkin - 09 Sep 2002

Disabling RCS altogether might be tougher, since TWiki has versioning so ingrained into itself!

-- MattWalsh - 15 Sep 2002

If you are only concerned about the size of the backup, you could only backup the ,v files - if you need to restore, you can easily extract the "real" images files manually...

-- EkkehardKraemer - 19 Sep 2002