http://wiki.makespace.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Backup 2026-07-29T10:45:16Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.22.6 http://wiki.makespace.org/index.php?title=Backup&diff=962&oldid=prev 2012-10-26T12:41:48Z

<p>Created page with &quot;=== MediaWiki === Our plan is based on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki. This is the shell script used to create backup files of MediaWiki&#039;s database and...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>=== MediaWiki ===<br /> <br /> Our plan is based on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki. <br /> <br /> This is the shell script used to create backup files of MediaWiki's database and configuration files:<br /> <br /> #!/bin/sh<br /> nice -n 19 /usr/bin/mysqldump -u wikiuser wikidb -c --password=&lt;wikiuser password&gt; | nice -n 19 /bin/gzip -9 &gt; ~/backup-wikidb-$(date '+%a').sql.gz<br /> tar zcf backup-mediawiki-etc-$(date '+%a').tar.gz /etc/mediawiki<br /> <br /> This is invoked each midnight by a crontab entry:<br /> 0 0 * * * /home/jimm/backup-mediawiki<br /> <br /> The files backup-mediawiki-* are then copied off to a remote server by a crontab running on another machine.<br /> <br /> ==== Restoration plan ====<br /> Not planned or tested yet.</div>

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