Help:Backup
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Yes. Mother is backed up every night at 3AM to our backup server. A redundant copy of the entire BluWiki site is also made weekly to a third machine. We also upgraded Mother to RAID 0, to reduce the chance that a drive failure will take the site offline.
However, should BluWiki go offline and never come back, you'd be much better off with your own personal backups. There are a number of situations where this might happen:
- I might die... leaving nobody to run the site.
- My office might burn down, destroying all machines in it and leaving me economically and emotionally devastated. Maybe I'd get BluWiki back online, but chances are I'd be too busy crying.
- There might be a freak earthquake in Virginia, leveling my office and destroying everything inside. See above.
- I might suddenly have an epiphany and realize that I want to see the sun, enjoy life, and forget about linux.
- I might fall in love with something besides a computer screen.
- Etc...
As you can see, the chances of BluWiki going offline are slim. I probably won't die, nor fall in love. But do you really want to trust your precious data to someone else? Someone that you don't even know? I mean, how do you even know if he'll be responsible with it? Geez... --Sam Odio 16:03, 8 March 2007 (EST)
How do I backup BluWiki
Ok there are a couple ways you can do this:
- Print out each BluWiki page, so that you can type everything in later. Actually, this isn't that good of an idea. I don't even know why I listed it first.
- Save each page. Using IE, just click on File > Save As. The advantage here is that all your images are saved as well. The disadvantage is that the page is saved in HTML, so it'd be a huge pain to restore it on any MediaWiki server
- Best solution: Save each page's wiki markup by clicking the edit icon in the top right, and copying the text into a word document or text file. Then download each image you use on the site, and save them in the same location.
Good luck!
