[Mediawiki-l] archiving wiki

[Alistair Johnson]

A couple of ideas:
- on a page by page basis you can see what version of a resource was
available at any given time through the history function; or
- take snapshots of the database at key times & have these available to be
restored into an empty wiki as and when required. You would also need to
backup the images directory at the same time.
   cd \MySQL\bin
   mysqldump -u wikiusername -pwikiuserpassword wikidb > \backup\wikidb.sql
   xcopy \mediawiki\images\*.* \backup\images /s /e

Al.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Davies [mailto:ucgajpd at ucl.ac.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, 18 May 2005 5:47 a.m.
To: mediawiki-l at wikimedia.org
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] archiving wiki

We are using the wiki for teaching and discussion. Now it transpires that we
must provide some kind of record of what resources were available to the
students at a given point. 

it's obviously not a question of a normal dump of HTML: I don't think anyone
minds *that* much what form it takes but it will need to be accessible to
non-techy people.

any suggestions on these 'snapshots' gratefully received. Thanks.
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