[Mediawiki-l] archiving wiki

[Jason Davies]

>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

I was hoping for some wonderfully non-labour intensive version...:-)

thanks. I had been tending towards the latter as a locked archive..