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Notes on how wiki.lyx.org is backed up.

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1. Backup procedure
2. Ideas
3. Scripts
1. 3.1 aussie.lyx.org:/home/lyx/www/pmwiki/bin/backup.sh

No proper solution for backing up wiki.lyx.org is implemented yet. This is the solution for now.

1. Backup procedure

Currently the procedure is as follows:

Execute the script backup.sh (see below). The result is an archive in ~/backup.
The resulting archive then needs to be copied to some other machine

2. Ideas

Implement a secondary site that can take over in case aussie.lyx.org fails
Automate the backup procedure

3. Scripts

3.1 aussie.lyx.org:/home/lyx/www/pmwiki/bin/backup.sh

#!/bin/sh
# This script creates a directory '$HOME/backup' if it does not exist,
# and then creates an archive of the wiki files.
#
# Written by Christian Ridderstrom 2006-12-23

# Make backupdir
backupdir=$HOME/backup
mkdir -p $backupdir

# Set name of target file
tg=$backupdir/wiki.lyx.org_`date +'%Y-%m-%d'`.tar.bz2

# Set name of source
src=/home/lyx/www/pmwiki

echo Archiving $src
echo as $tg
echo by executing the command: 
echo tar cjvf $tg $src
echo This will take a while...
tar cjf $tg $src
echo Done.