Talk:Newman Indian 125/5 Engine Assembly Manual

While I'm not looking to upload complete repair manuals in full, I think these are ok as they are probably out of print anyway and could be a good resource to anyone with a similar bike. If you want I can mirror these manuals to cyclechaos.com and have links to your domain as well. One thing I noticed about these manuals and I'm by no means an expert on PDFs is that they don't seem to be searchable in acrobat. I played with it a second and produced this http://www.cyclechaos.com/uploads/Manuals/Newman_Indian/Engine_125-5_Assembly_Manual.pdf. Let me know what you think.--Budlight 10:26, 22 December 2006 (EST)

Thanks!

First: yes, please mirror them! Also, if you would like a place to put your Wiki database backups, I can give you some space on my site (about 50Mb) to put that.

Second: Excellent OCR! My scans aren't searchable becuase I don't have Adobe Acrobat - just a bunch of Linux shell scripts. I would like you to make your searchable versions the primary versions on my manual pages, with my orginals as a footnote (just in case someone wanted to re-OCR them)

Thanks again!

• Ok I went ahead and did that, as far as backups go, I currently back up the entire site with cpanel (actually whm) to a remote server (my old shared hosting @ dreamhost) and it seems to work well. The compressed full site backup is about 1.5 GB. I should test this backup to make sure it actually works, as the backup script is actually written by cPanel. When I was at dreamhost I had it setup to rsync the entire site to my computer along with the databases using a bash script. I'm going to get this working soon and I plan to set it up to archive the actual database from everyday for as far back as I can handle. This way if a small corruption is introduced or something I might can see what happened (who knows might never be useful but couldn't hurt). If you have any more suggestions just let me know, I'm not sure if doing the backups like wikipedia does would be beneficial or useful to anyone, they actually don't use the mysql dump or provide a way to convert their dump to the mysql dump, so basically I think the only people using their dumps are people just wanting loads of content for instance http://www.answers.com who is taking the wikipedia dumps and making money off of them (and since they are so big they don't run into any duplicate content issues). Even if I did offer the dumps the site still has at least 1 gb of pictures so far, that without them it basically makes the backups useless. --Budlight 10:12, 27 December 2006 (EST)