Ira Abramov wrote: <snip>
There isn't such a tool actually although you can use Special:Export to extract one article.
last I check this was a "write only backup medium" since I found no way to suck that single page back in.
Hello,
The Special:Import page isn't finished yet :o)
I personally use mysqldump other all my databases every 15 days or so and zip / archive the dumps on an other disk.
I do that daily with my site, keep 6 back "issues" on the server (i.e. one week) and rsync the last one to my home machine. Better safe than sorry (and sorry I've been. believe me)
Looks like a safe way. You might even want to burn a cd from time to time to be even safer :o)