BackupMediawiki

This is a script to backup your Mediawiki that is constructed by MySQL or Maria DB.

Requirement

• python3
• MySQL or MariaDB (Required mysqldump)
• Linux (This script is tested on Linux of distro Fedora22 and Fedora23)

Setting

Open and edit default.yaml for your environment. Each meaning of parameters is explained in config file.

How to use this script

Clone this repository on your environment.

git clone https://github.com/TsutomuNakamura/BackupMediawiki.git

Change current working directory and edit ./conf/default.yaml file as needed.

cd BackupMediawiki
vim ./conf/default.yaml

Run BackupMediawiki.py.

./BackupMediawiki.py

After finished it, you'll find backup files are located in "mediawiki_backup_dir" and "mysqldump_dir" that assigned in default.yaml.

ls /var/mediawiki-backup/wiki/files/mediawiki-backup*
ls /var/mediawiki-backup/wiki/db/mysql-dump*

Restoreing

If you got backups with default settings on Fedora, the restoring process will like below.

cp /var/mediawiki-backup/wiki/db/mysql-dump.YYYYMMDDhhmmss.tar.gz .
tar -zxf /var/mediawiki-backup/wiki/db/mysql-dump.YYYYMMDDhhmmss.tar.gz
mysql YOUR_WIKI_DB_NAME < mysql-dump.YYYYMMDDhhmmss

cp /var/mediawiki-backup/wiki/files/mediawiki-backup.YYYYMMDDhhmmss.tar.gz .
tar -zxf mediawiki-backup.YYYYMMDDhhmmss.tar.gz
cd mediawiki-backup.YYYYMMDDhhmmss
rm -rf /var/www/wiki/images
cp -r images /var/www/wiki/
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/wiki/images
rm -rf /var/www/wiki/mw-config
cp -r mw-config /var/www/wiki/
cp LocalSettings.php /var/www/wiki/