[Mediawiki-l] Backup & contents box

[Willy, Andrew]

Thank you Rick!

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick DeNatale [mailto:rick.denatale at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Backup & contents box


On 1/19/06, Willy, Andrew <AWilly at esmil.net> wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I want to make sure I'm properly backing up our wiki.  I first do a MySQL
> backup, then I move the resulting file and the entire wiki directory onto
> tape.  Is that sufficient or is there a stray critical peice I'm
> overlooking?

It should be unless you've configured mediawiki to put something (like
the upload directory) in a non-standard place.

> Second question.  Is there a way to prevent the contents table from being
> generated on certain pages?

Put __NOTOC__ somewhere in the page.  There are two underscore
characters at each end of this "magic word".  For more magic words
see:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#__NOTOC__


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