Thank you, Nicolas. Indeed, this solution is again not easy but I will probably give it a try. B. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Nicolas Brouard Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. März 2013 19:45 An: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Betreff: Re: [MediaWiki-l] backup wiki Hi, No, there is no easy solution. Images are stored in an other directory and have nothing to do with your mediawiki versioned php files. Also, extensions are (more or less dependent of the mediawiki version used) located in a different tree. Thus you should have a new extension folder and copy your images tree in a new folder too. Databases have to be backup independently with mysqldump for examples. In order to update an old mediawiki version, you could look at the last paragraph named "Wikimedia method" (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family#Wikimedia_Method). It has also been the simplest method for me even if I am not sure that this is the method used by Wikimedia anymore. Below is is the sentence with the "key" idea which consists in using the various php scripts of the 'maintenance' directory by including them in a outer script which redefines SERVER values as well as $wgDBname values etc., which are 'inherited' by maintenance/update.php or other scripts. I spent some time before understanding this point: ------------------------ The script maintenance/update.php can be included from a another php script, update_farm.php for example, and this outer script will set the various SERVER values that are needed by your LocalSettings.php to set the correct $wgDBname: <?php # update_farm.php script $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] = $argv[1]; $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']= $argv[2]; #optional include("maintenance/update.php") and the command line for updating meta.yourdomain.net is, from your unique mediawiki directory: php update_farm.php meta.yourdomain.net Your unique LocalSettings.php (which usually consists in a few lines including a CommonSettings.php not directly accessible from the server) decodes the variable meta and will set the $wgDBname accordingly. ---------------------------- Looking at my current backup procedures, I have a bash script with 3 arguments dumpBackupXML-somelanguages.sh : ----- domain=$1 # domain optiondump=$2 # current or full listlanguages=$3 if [ $# -ne 3 ] # Standard check whether command line arg is present. then echo Usage: ./`basename $0` "domain="$domain $optiondump $listlanguages exit 1 fi DATENOW=$(date +"%F-%H-%M") ... Settings from the listlanguages: the server name '-server' and the correct directory where the unique LocalSettings.php file resides, $dirdep, wgDBprefix, wgDBname ... php ./dumpxml_subdomains.php --server ${lang}${dashedition}.${domain} --conf ${conf}LocalSettings.php --docroot ${conf} ${optiondump} --output=bzip2:$dirdep/${wgDBprefix}-${domain}${optiondump}-${DATENOW}.xml.bz2 ---- and the dumpxml_subdomains.php is similar to: ------------ <?php $server = $argv[2]; //$argv gets commandline arguments $conf = $argv[4]; $docroot= $argv[6]; $optiondump = $argv[8]; if ($argc <>9) { print "Runs dumpBackup.php by passing --server, --conf, --full or --current --output values. \n --docroot \ndumpBackup_subdomains.php --server $server --conf $conf --current --output=bzip2:file\n"; exit; } // set domain name $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] = $server; $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']= $docroot; echo '-------------------------------------- Running dumpBackup.php for ' . $server . ' on ' .$docroot.' with conf ' .$conf.' and option '.$optiondump.' -------------------------------------- '; include("${docroot}maintenance/dumpBackup.php"); echo '------------------------end-------------- --------- I hope not misunderstanding your questions. Regards, Nicolas Le 27 mars 2013 à 17:16, Scheid, Bernhard a écrit : -- N. Brouard _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l