Cloning is the best option for now
We will explore versioning later
I suppose I could clone to a different account so my dashboard doesn't get totally messed up and then I have an account specifically for backups. Is this a good idea?
Sure, why not. Clone makes them completely transferable.
Branching would fit really well for this case
basically all changes need to happen on a branch until they are merged
Webflow has this feature only for enterprise customers.
I have the same fear right now. In content mode they can't do too much damage. But if they wipe out important content and then publish, it's gone. Would it be difficult to automate backups to Github?
Would it be difficult to automate backups to Github?
Yes
Would it work for you if you had a way to open builder in view-only mode on published version for any of the domains you have and be able to copy things from there back into your current dev version?
Would this account for if a shared user made changes?
Doesn't matter who made changes
Sorry, I don't really understand. Can you try describing it differently?
doesn't matter who made changes, if you had access to the view-only builder link that loads data from published versions, would that be enough to cover your problem? Any published version can be opened in the builder and one can copy things back into the dev version
In this case its not the same as a backup or versioning, its just access to copy.
versions you would have access to is the same as the amount of domains you published to
basically you can get access to whatever is published
but not in a way that would restore your entire build like a backup
This is something we can do fairely quickly
I think I'm understanding a bit better.
Is this correct: Someone screws up the site in the builder, I could navigate to the view-only builder (which is based on the published version), then I could copy items from there back into my broken version?
Is this also correct: Someone screws up the site in the builder AND they publish. I can no longer grab items from the view-only builder to paste into my broken version?
this would be an intermediate solution to reduce the fear
also if you have multiple domains you can publish to staging first then to prod
and hopefully there is at least one functional version should something bad happen
I am not sure this solution is not too confusing to even make it happen
For now I've just duplicated the site to keep as a backup. I'll create a new copy if I make design changes. Otherwise I've just told the client he needs to keep copies of any content he posts to the site.
That's what I did previously as well (cloned as a backup).
Personally, I'm ok with this solution until versioning comes out. It's simple enough and the Webstudio team doesn't need to shift gears onto the view-only idea.
