Help:Wiki Backup
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You need to backup two things in order to restore the wiki:
- The wiki mysql database
- The images folder
- The settings files
Backing up the MySQL Database
- Open SSH Secure Shell
- Login to the Hades server (see administrator)
- Type:
mysqldump -h localhost -u [USERNAME] -p -B mewiki > mewiki.sql
- Zip the database file:
gzip mewiki.sql
- FTP to the directory containing the mewiki.sql.gz file and download to a safe place
- Delete the mewiki.sql.gz file from the server.
To restore the wiki database,
- Upload the mewiki.sql.gz file to the Hades webserver
- Unzip the file:
gunzip -xf mewiki.sql.gz
- Insert the database:
mysql -h localhost -u [USERNAME] -p mewiki < mewiki.sql
- Enter the password for the mysql database
- Delete the mewiki.sql from the server.
Backing up the Images Folder
- Navigate to the wiki directory (./wiki)
- Tar the images folder:
tar -cf images.tar images
- Zip the file:
gzip images.tar
- FTP download the file images.tar.gz to a safe place.
- Delete the images.tar.gz file from the server.
Backing up the Settings Files
- goto the wiki directory (./wiki)
- Copy the file, LocalSettings.php, to your backup folder
- Copy the folder, external, to your backup folder
To restore,
- copy "LocalSettings.php" and the "external" folder to the wiki directory.
- make sure the "external" folder is chmod 711.