[pmwiki-users] Farm Setup Advice

[DaveG]

I've recently started using PMWiki to store notes, both for home, and at 
work. I decided to separate the two using farms. This allows me to 
maintain my work wiki on a local PC, and then sync it to a server, where 
I also store my personal wiki. Thus I can access both wikis from the 
server. This also provides a way to create another create a separate 
work wiki if I ever switch jobs.

I also have a public wiki on the same server.

My current setup (simplified) is:

\pmwiki
   \wiki.d   --public wiki
   \local
   \pub
\personal wiki
   \wiki.d
   \local
\work1 wiki
   \wiki.d
   \local

I access the 'farm' wikis (personal and work1) using redirected subdomains.

1] I'd like an easier way to backup the server, and a way to prevent the 
wiki directories 'cluttering' the higher level directories.

Currently I'd have to change the backup routines if I add another farm. 
That's easy, but experience tells me that backups get forgotten, or 
moved to 'get around to it' mode.

Something like:
\pmwiki
   \farms
     \public
       \wiki.d   --public wiki
       \local
     \personal
       \wiki.d   --public wiki
       \local
     \work1
       \wiki.d   --public wiki
       \local
   \local
   \pub


That would let me set the backups on \farms, and I'm set. Of course this 
way  I'd still have to update the .htaccess if I added a farm, but I 
figure that I'd have to do that anyway.

Is this setup possible?

2] Is there any way to setup searching across selected farms? I'd like 
to be able to search work and personal together, but keep public separate.


  ~ ~ Dave