It's long been a plan of mine (following my own recommendations from our Finland presentation) to build in a system whereby hard copies of all the XHTML, PDF and other output formats can be (or perhaps are automatically) saved on the server, so that should Tomcat or Cocoon go down in some catastrophic way, those files are all available to the editors. I implemented that today, following some instructions here. There was a lot of messing around initially getting the folder paths right in the parameters to the flowscript, but after tailing the Cocoon log for a while, I got that sorted.

However, it didn't work in the end, due to a permissions issue. The Tomcat process runs as apachsrv, which apparently doesn't have permission to write to those folders -- which makes perfect sense from a security point of view. We're working on that with sysadmin now.