Best way is to restore it to a 'test' site.
Its important to test your backup strategy - and not rely on thinking
you've done all you need to - finding you've forgotten something when you
need to recover from a real problem is not the way !
I make a copy of the entire wiki folder structure (which includes images,
extensions, localsettings.php et al) and an automated MySQL database
backup ( this is built in to the MySQL administrator app.)
Jon.
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What is a good way to confirm that my backup backed up the entire site?
Apart from the site, I also need the images directory, the extensions
directory, and the php configuration file (I forget the name).
Anything else?
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