[Mediawiki-l] Method for Backup whole system

[Vedant Lath]

i don't think it will backup the image files and LocalSettings.php

On 4/19/06, Trevor Richardson <mibrad at iafrica.com> wrote:
>
> The simplest backup process is to dump the whole database to SQL by using
> this command-line script:
>
> "Path to mysqldump.exe" -u"db username" -p"db user password" "database
> name"
> > "Path to Name of filedump.sql"
>
> To import the same file back again use this command-line script:
>
> "Path to mysqldump.exe" -u"db username" -p"db user password" "database
> name"
> < "path to name of dumped file"
>
> Just drop the quotation marks but keep the < & >.
>
> It can take some time depending on your db size but it dumps everything.
> Remember this is just your data all config files should be backed up as
> per
> normal system file backups.
>
> Good Luck
> Trevor
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 19 April 2006 10:27 AM
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> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Method for Backup whole system
>
> Hi,
> what is a good method to backup the whole system (DB, Images, Configs,
> DB-Users, Wiki-Users...)?
> dumpBackup.php does only an export of the wiki-content. What other data is
> needed to backup the system and how can this be done?
> Regards
> Stefan
>
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