: Completely backup MediaWiki I'm trying to backup my MediaWiki instance. I'd like to do it completely, meaning that if the web server exploded suddenly, with the backup files, I can restore

@Annie201

The fullsitebackup script looks fine but it might not work on all systems. It's dumping the database and it's compressing the files in a tar file.

As with any backup script and system the best way to know if it works is to take the backup, set it up on a fresh machine and see if everything works as usual.

It's worth learning some basic shell scripting if you're managing websites for which you need to assure proper backups. I usually set up my backup systems with some shell code, with a little help from backupninja for the database dumps.

For MediaWiki systems it makes sense to "split up" the backup in different parts. I prefer to


move code into htdocs or html directory
keep code in a git repository at GitHub (excluding images and dumps),
nightly dump database into a directory not accessible through webserver (e.g. Apache)
rsync everything to somewhere else
I have a scripts directory to manage all this


I'm also running several MediaWiki instances from one code base. I might open up some of this code if there's enough interest (from me or others).

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