Joshua Penix wrote: > On Dec 2, 2007, at 10:23 PM, Gus Wirth wrote: > >> I'm trying to figure out what needs to be backed up in TWiki >> <http://twiki.org>. The Twiki site is decidedly unhelpful. It seems that >> it has stuff scattered all over the place, including /var/www/twiki, >> /var/lib/twiki, /var/cgi-bin and others. > > It sounds like you installed TWiki through a package... because in the > source installs I've done everything is under a single twiki directory. > In this setup, I just back up the entire thing from the top - one of the > nice things about TWiki's file-based approach. > > Assuming a 4.x install (may apply to 3.x and earlier, but I haven't had > much experience with those), your two absolutely critical folders for > backup are 'data' and 'pub' plus lib/LocalSite.cfg which contains your > config. > > If the paths of the package don't make sense, I recommend looking in > LocalSite.cfg or visiting the config webpage > (site.com/twiki/bin/configure) and then expanding the "General path > settings" section. In there, you'll find "DataDir" and "PubDir" > settings which will point you to the correct Unix paths so you'll know > what to back up. > > You'll probably also want to be conscious of bin/LocalLib.cfg since > that's what ties TWiki to a library path on your OS. If you've > installed plugins or templates, then that's probably going to extend the > list of things that need to be backed up.
Thanks. Unfortunately, I didn't do the setup so I'm not sure how they got it onto the box. I'll check with dpkg to see if twiki is a package. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
