[Radiant] Some questions from a ROR newby ..

[Riccardo Giannitrapani]

Dear all

first of all let me apologize if the questions contained in this email are
in anyway FAQ or stupid
ones .. I'm programming in Ruby from a long time (at least 5 years), but
I'm completely new to ROR
applications and to CMS in general ..

I'm writing because I'm going to work on the web site of my software
startup (www.datamind.biz) and
after evaluating lots of different possibilities, I've decided to do it
with a CMS .. I've tried some
popular CMS around on my BlueHost domain, but after a while I've realized
that none was really suited
for my needs; the web site I need to do is a simple corporate site, with
no more than 10-12 pages (
the usual About Us, Contact Us, Our Services, Our Products and so on) that
are almost static and some
contents (like news, job positions, porfolio and use cases) that need to
change or be added from while
to while .. but I don't need a community site or a portal, with users,
comments, blogs and so on ..

So, after a while I've started to think to move towards Ruby; it is a
language that I know very well,
and althought I don't work on web applications, the rumors on ROR has
arrived to me too .. after a short
google research I've finally arrived to Radiant CMS and I think I've just
found exactly what I need ..

I've managed to install it (well, sort of) on my site domain for some
experimenting, and after few hours
I've been able to get the feeling for it .. but I have some questions
(here it is why I'm writing here)

1. is there any way to do a site backup? maybe on the mysql side (I'm
using mysql since BlueHost is
     giving it)? From what I've understood reading this mailing list a sort
of versioning system is on
     the way for Radiant, but I would like what you guru are doing at the
moment to be sure your site
     is not delete by a mistake forever (sorry for the probably stupid
question .. I'm not an expert of
     DB and MySql .. maybe is trivial to make a MySql db backup
periodically) ..

2. is there anyway to change the pages tree structure? I mean, suppose
I've just done a page A
     and a child page B .. can I later move the page B in another position
of the tree? Or do I need
     it by hands by copying the page content and parts in a new one in the
right position?

3. I've seen that there is a behavior for supporting multilingual site ..
is this working on a full
     hierarchy base (i.e. I need to do two pages trees, one for italian and
one for english) or
     it can be used also at a page level (i.e. I can do on the same page the
two translations, maybe
     using different component of the page)? Anyone has some experience to
share about the use of
     Radiant on a multilingual site?

Ok .. at the moment these are my main questions on the possible use of
Radiant for my site .. let me again
apologize if these are trivial and let me say thanks to Radiant creators
and contributors, I'm just
at the start of this new travel in the CMS and ROR world and I've already
had lots of fun .. thanks! :)

Riccardo