Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Backups (was: alpha tables flushed nightly)

[Steve W. <sw...@pa...>]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Jeff Dairiki wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:49:31 -0500 (EST)
> "Steve Wainstead" <sw...@pa...> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Adam Shand wrote:
> > > i think it would also be nice to migrate the main phpwiki site to the
> 1.3
> > > code base to get it some testing and exposure.
> >
> > Yes, I'll do that soon. The main site will be the for discussion; the
> > alpha site for experimentation. In fact there's no reason why we can't
> > have demos of all three versions (1.0, 1.2, 1.3.x) and a stable home
> site
> > for the project.
>
> That sounds like a fine plan.
>
> We should probably (if "we"'re not doing so already) set up some regular
> back-upage of the production wiki.  I can set up a cron job to fetch a
> nightly zip-dump to my home machine, but if someone else has a system
> which is more systematically backed-up (e.g. nightly tapes), that would,
> of course, be preferable.
>
> For that matter, we should arrange for backups of the CVS archive (&
> perhaps other data) as well.  I just noticed that this is, more-or-less,
> our responsibility, not SourceForge's.  See:
>   http://sf.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=6840&group_id=1

Aye, we could just do a mysqldump too. I can set up a cron job on my
remote server to do this every night. I'll add it to the todo list.

~swain


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