Hi Ed,
I use a different approach to disaster-recovery: my wiki runs on a virtual server (based on VMware Server 1.0.3) which only hosts the wiki and nothing else. As a backup I have several copies (one on another harddisk of the host-server and two on the two harddisks of another backup-host-server) of the directory which "makes up" the virtual server. At night I shutdown the VM via script, synchronize the four directories via rsync and restart the VM. This way, I loose the changes of one day at the most. I'm not sure, whether the VMware-snapshot-functionality could be used to backup a running virtual server, because I haven't investigated that possibility (yet). But I guess, it should be possible to make a snapshot and backup that via rsync at a much greater frequenzy... As my wiki is an internal wiki with under 30 users (most of them not activly adding to the wiki to boot) and no need for 24/7 availability, I didn't need to investigate performance and availability-issues that may be connected with using a virtual server. But I guess there are others reading this list who can add their experience in that field. ;-)
In short: I've moved the task of data-backup to server-backup via VMware. ;-)
Greetings Kate
Ed Melendez schrieb:
Is there a way to replicate an installation of WIKI Media, including the database? We would like to build an additional system for disaster recovery purposes so the backup system should be able to replicate data back to the primary system.
If anyone has any working installation I would love to hear how you are doing it.
Thanks, -Ed