[Mediawiki-l] Backing up

[Jon.G.Bartlett at gsk.com]

Best way is to restore it to a 'test' site.

Its important to test your backup strategy - and not rely on thinking 
you've done all you need to - finding you've forgotten something when you 
need to recover from a real problem is not the way !

I make a copy of the entire wiki folder structure (which includes images, 
extensions, localsettings.php et al) and an automated MySQL database 
backup ( this is built in to the MySQL administrator app.)

Jon.



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What is a good way to confirm that my backup backed up the entire site?

Apart from the site, I also need the images directory, the extensions 
directory, and the php configuration file (I forget the name). 
Anything else?

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