[Coco] Cocopedia.com backups

[Don Barber]

Hi Allen, it looks like cocopedia runs mediawiki, which means most of 
the data is probably inside a mysql database (there are a few other 
supported engines but mysql is the most common for mediawiki). Do you 
have a cron that runs something like 'mysqldump' that extracts the 
database data into a file so that can be backed up along with all the 
files (templates, uploaded images, etc). See 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki for how to do that.

 From there its just a matter of where to store the data safely and how 
to sync it, like Jim said.

I see you have plenty of offers of backup space already but I'd be happy 
to pay for an aws s3 bucket to store the backups too. (one would use 
'aws s3 sync' instead of 'rsync' for a unix shell but it'd be a similar 
mechanism). Could even make that bucket public-read so anyone can 
download the backups.

Thanks,

Don

On 1/11/24 17:50, RETRO Innovations via Coco wrote:
> On 1/11/2024 4:38 PM, Allen Huffman via Coco wrote:
>> Hi folks. I host the cocopedia.com wiki, and I make regular (but 
>> probably not regular enough) backups from my webhost. I can download 
>> them as compressed files and supposedly use them to restore the site 
>> in case of a disaster.
>>
>> It’s been brought up often about having these sites backed up so they 
>> can live on if something were to happen to the webmaster.
>>
>> For 2024, I’d like to make that happen with cocopedia. In an ideal 
>> world, I’d like a solution that mirrors it, so if a server blew up, 
>> it would still be online. I do not know if that is practical.
>>
>> At the least, I can make the backup files FTP to a destination, 
>> regularly.
>>
>> I do wonder about how passwords and such are stored. As long as they 
>> are encrypted and such, I guess it’s fine. But I know alot of folks 
>> reuse passwords so I wouldn’t want to give out any data that could 
>> unlock someones bank account with the same password.
>>
>> That’s my main concern.
>>
>> Thoughts?
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> Unless you need it truly mirrored under a different address, but just 
> need it backed up, I'd just run a cron job (I assume the web host is a 
> vLinux config) to rsync the entire site to another location.  I can 
> offer a ssh location on my area, glenside can as well (or in lieu of), 
> and Dennis and others can as well. Or, if you have ssh access to the 
> web host, rsync down to your local Linux/Windows/MacOS env nightly.
>
> rsync -avz --delete ... is my best friend here
>
> Jim
>