________________________________ From: Henny Savenije <[email protected]> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2012 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki replication? At 01:44 AM 2/5/2012, you wrote: > Also very interested in this for 2 reasons. 1) I too have mirrors of my wiki, > that don't get updated like they should because of the pain that it is. 2) > sandbox testing of upgrades.
> I am running a replica of a media wiki (not the images though but I guess I > could do that too with a cron job) I use mysqldumper to make a dump and put > it on the other server and > run a cron job there to restore the dump into the other database. works fine. > On Feb 4, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Joseph Spenner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Is there a way/tool/application to replicate a MediaWiki server to other > > servers? I'd like to be able to have local copies of a MediaWiki at > > several locations, in the event some locations become unreachable. The > > updates to the wiki wouldn't be too frequent, so I wouldn't have to worry > > much about a sync taking place during an update. In fact, I'd be ok doing > > a nightly sync. > > > > Any help would be great. > > > > Thanks! So, the entries in the MediaWiki are stored in mysql, and the attachments are stored in a directory? If it were a flat filesystem for everything, and rsync would do the trick since it would only pick up the changes. This would also allow bi-directional updates. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
