Re: [Lurker-users] prevent languages being generated

[Wesley W. T. <we...@te...>]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Adrian Bridgett <ad...@sm...> wrote:

> Not quite.  I should have explained more clearly.  Currently (lacking
> any better information) I backup everything lurker touches:
>
> 7916    /var/www/lurker/attach
> 84      /var/www/lurker/imgs
> 4       /var/www/lurker/index.html
> 256     /var/www/lurker/list
> 0       /var/www/lurker/lurker.docroot
> 4       /var/www/lurker/mbox
> 85148   /var/www/lurker/message (pruned somewhat)
> 125132  /var/www/lurker/mindex
> 4       /var/www/lurker/search
> 68      /var/www/lurker/splash
> 66024   /var/www/lurker/thread (pruned somewhat)
> 0       /var/www/lurker/ui
> 4       /var/www/lurker/zap
> 63164   /var/lib/lurker/
>

The things you need to backup:
  /var/lib/lurker <-- the actual database
  /var/www/lurker/ui <-- the frontend
  /var/www/lurker/imgs <-- the icons
The rest is all just cache.

Looking at the lurker-prune manpage it sees to say the whole of
> /var/www/lurker is the cache?  Is that correct?


Mostly. See above.


>  To be honest if I can
> drop the message/mindex/thread folders from teh backups that'd make a
> huge difference (just backing it up to home).
>

It would also mean there is very little benefit to disabling foreign
languages.