David Gerard wrote: > This is all the obvious method, but the key thing I want to note is > that it actually works smoothly just as you would expect :-) > > > Our intranet wiki is MediaWiki 1.13 using MySQL on a Solaris 10 box, > which is our general internal-use database server. Oracle runs on the > same box and decided to fill /data last week, breaking MySQL and hence > the wiki we use for the instructions on how to fix the box ... > > So I set up something to mirror it. > > 1. Install 1.17b1 on a RHEL 5 VM (that we already have a copy of > MediaWiki 1.15 on). Defaults are fine. > 2. Put this script in the maintenance directory of the first box > (server names anonymised), using your full paths to php and scp, run > it from cron at 5am every day: > > #!/usr/bin/bash > cd /data/apache/mediawiki-1.13.3/maintenance > /usr/local/bin/php dumpBackup.php --full>dump.xml > /usr/bin/scp dump.xml > [email protected]:/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/techwiki/maintenance > > 3. Put the ssh key for the first box user the script runs as in > ~admin/.ssh/authorized_keys on the second box, so the scp runs > unattended. > 4. Put this script in the maintenance directory of the second box, > using your full path to php, run it from cron at 6am every day: > > #!/bin/bash > cd /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/techwiki/maintenance > /usr/bin/php importDump.php dump.xml > /usr/bin/php rebuildrecentchanges.php > > This doesn't copy images or files - we don't use images much at all. > That can come later if we care :-) Looking a bit broken may well be a > feature in this context ...
That won't provide a full backup (eg. user list). I think you should have used mysqldump instead. Of course, the best mirror would be one that actually replicated from the master... > I put a notice in MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice on the > mirror copy that this was a read-only mirror, and disabled editing for > everyone who wasn't me. > > > (and yes, I have vague plans to update the wiki from 1.13. OTOH, > MediaWiki on Solaris is so stupidly painful in my experience that I > advise no-one do it ever.) Why so? Is PHP code different in Solaris? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
