It can’t be a full normal backup because that has lots of private information.
Previously, before we migrated, the archiving was partly for data preservation purposes. But now we have both Linode and S3 backups, so that’s not really necessary. Now an archive that would let you explore and process the data would be useful. If you’re familiar with Stack Exchange’s SEDE, that’s the sort of thing I’d like to enable. So a sanitised SQL dump would be best I think.
I’m going to install the data explorer plugin, then have a look at what columns there actually are. I might be able to figure out the sql commands I need myself.
Sorry to use you all as programming rubber ducks 