(:title Backup and Restore:) (:Summary:background information and some basic backup and restore procedures:) This page has some background information on making backups and explains some basic *nix backup and restore procedures. !! Introduction Your wiki installation contains some unique data in the following directories: local/ Local configuration scripts cookbook/ Recipes obtained from the [[(Cookbook:)Cookbook]] pub/ Publicly accessible files wiki.d/ Wiki pages uploads/ [[Uploads|Uploaded files]] (attachments) A good backup plan will include periodically archiving these directories — or at bare minimum [@local/@] and [@wiki.d/@]. Good practice dictates keeping your backup archives on a separate machine. !! Simple Backup and Restore (*nix) When it comes to backup, simpler is better. Since the pmwiki distribution is very small (about 1/4 megabyte), it's simplest to just archive the distribution files along with the data. !!! Making a Backup Archive The following *nix command, executed from the parent directory of your wiki's directory, will put a complete backup archive of your site in your home directory. -> [@ tar -zcvf ~/wiki-backup-`date +%Y%m`.tar.gz wiki/ @] [[#restore]] !!! Restoring the Backup Archive !!!! Simple Method Your site can be restored and running in under 30 seconds with -> [@ tar -zxvf ~/wiki-backup-200512.tar.gz find wiki/uploads/ -type d |xargs chmod 777 find wiki/wiki.d/ -type d |xargs chmod 777 @] !!!! A Slightly-More-Secure Method The simple restore commands above will give you world-writable files and directories. You can avoid world-writable permissions by letting PmWiki create directories with the proper attributes (ownership and permissions) for you. Start with -> [@ tar -zxvf ~/wiki-backup-200512.tar.gz rm -rf wiki/wiki.d rm -rf uploads chmod 2777 wiki/ @] Now upload a file in each group that had uploads. If your site doesn't have uploads, just visit your site once so the wiki.d/ directory will be created. Finish your installation with -> [@ chmod 755 wiki/ tar -zxvf ~/wiki-backup-200512.tar.gz @] !!! Details The commands on this page assume your site is in a directory called "wiki/". The test backup was made in December, 2005 so it's named accordingly. Your site will only have an uploads/ directory if uploads are enabled. The backup command uses a date stamp (YYYYMM) in the filename. If you automate the command via cron you'll wind up with monthly snapshots of your site. You can get a daily snapshot by appending %d to the date command ([@`date +%Y%m%d`@] will get you YYYYMMDD). Be wary of space limitations if you have a large uploads/ directory. !! See Also * A [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wiki.pmwiki.user/20317| thread]] [gmane.org] on the pmwiki-users mailing list. * A [[(Cookbook:)Backup Pages]] recipe in the cookbook. !! Miscellaneous !! Backup via FTP Download and install a ftp client like [[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client|Filezilla]] # Using the ftp client connect to the server where you host pmWiki using ## the IP address (ex: 123.234.56.67) or the ftp name (ex: ftp.myhost.com) ## supply your account name (ex: mylogin) and password (ex: myp4ssw0rd) # Move to your pmWiki directory (ex: @@/usr/mylogin/web/wiki/@@ or @@/tahi/public_html/pmwiki@@ ) # Select the folder you want to backup as explained before (probably either only the data or the whole wiki directory) ** for data you will want to backup both the directories *** @@wiki.d@@ for user page data *** @@pmwikiuploads@@ (or @@uploads@@) for your attachments (uploads) ** for system you will want, at a minimum, to backup both the directories *** @@local@@ for configuration data *** @@pub@@ for local CSS and skins customisations # Download them to a local folder # Use [[http://www.7-zip.org/ | 7zip]] or a similar software to build an archive of this backup You can also very easily sync your FTP directories with your hard disc via this command line: -> [@ wget -nv -np -m ftp://user:password@ftp.yourhost.net/ @] '-Download [[http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm | Wget for Windows]] (other systems normally have it installed).-' Alternatively, you can also mirror your FTP directories with lftp: -> [@ lftp -u your_user_name,your_password -e "mirror --verbose /wiki.d /path/to/local/folder" ftp://your_host @] (this will mirror only the /wiki.d folder, replace with / to mirror everything) [[#rsync]] !! Using rsync See Cookbook:BackupWithRsync and Cookbook:TwoWayMirroringWithRsync.