I am not as subtle as kate in my backup yet - i just shutdown my VMWare Player virtual machine for a few minutes back up the whole thing (less than 4.5 Gb) to a usb hard drive and then boot up again. > Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:48:52 +0200> From: wolkwitz@fh-swf.de> To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] WIKI Replication> > 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> > _______________________________________________> MediaWiki-l mailing list> MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _________________________________________________________________ 100’s of Music vouchers to be won with MSN Music https://www.musicmashup.co.uk