Omega8.cc: Uploads Ride in the Boot

The code of a Drupal or Backdrop site is the part everyone rebuilds, upgrades and throws away with a light heart; the uploads are the part nobody plans for, and they are the only part which cannot be downloaded again tomorrow. On a BOA server the files and private directories live outside the codebase, in the account's own store, with two symlinks in the site pointing there, so a platform rebuild, a core update or a move to a newer codebase never touches them, a clone gets a real copy of its own, a rename carries them along, a restore sets the old content aside instead of deleting it, and a delete moves the site's uploads into a dated archive, never removes them, and never blocks reusing the name. Every move is dry-run first, refused when the disk is short, and written down; the one thing the machine will not do on its own is delete your uploads, and the one thing it cannot stop is the store growing.