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how to backup full wiki

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2A02:908:CD23:3820:2CA7:EBB0:C959:751A (talkcontribs)

Hi, I'm using the Mediawiki 1.23.9 software on my German website http://soluschristus.bplaced.net . I don't understand much about all the software and technology. The hoster is www.bplaced.net.

I would like to know some answers to be able to use the software better. I would be very thankful if someone could add me on skype or facebook, to explain a few things.

But one important question is, how I am able to make a full backup of my wiki. I have written many articles, and want to be sure, that no way they could be lost. In the MediaWiki special pages, there is the option to export pages, but it's not realistic to take each article one after the other. They are too many.

I'm regularly downloading a "localhost.sql" file, which is a database exported from my website hoster bplaced.net. And I download sometimes the full folder of my website through FileZilla.

But still, I am not sure, if this backups are full rescue. When I download the full folder from FileZilla, I'm often asked, if I want to overwrite some files, because there are more than one of them with the same name, but different size (so I'm confused). And I don't know how to test the backups, if it's possible to fully import the data or not - I don't know how.

I'm a newb. Thanks for help.

Malyacko (talkcontribs)

Unrelated: Note that 1.23.9 is an old unsupported version with security vulnerabilities. Please consider Manual:Upgrading

2001:16B8:105F:2A00:E455:E47F:AB3E:AED2 (talkcontribs)

The database file contains all texts inside your articles. So having a current backup of it is good. To be on the safe side, you should have a backup of the wiki folder as well.

See backup for more details.

Samwilson (talkcontribs)

You can also do a full XML dump of all pages, with the dumpBackup.php script. This can be useful in addition to the full database backup, because it doesn't contain any sensitive information. Some public wikis choose to archive their full pages dump on the Internet Archive.

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