Backup File question
Posted by Luciano on 19 September 2014 in English. Last updated on 20 September 2014.I noticed the expected backup file (ogf_140919_1200.osm.pbf) did not appear. Is there a problem? I have been grabbing this file every day as a habit, since I began to do all my JOSM edits “offline” and using the “osmconvert” program to get my extracts (it’s much, much faster than downloading via connection in JOSM or Potlatch).
Speaking of backups, I wonder if backups are made of the wiki, too? If there aren’t, could we look into that? - people have invested a lot of energy and time in their wiki entries and it would be a good idea to keep backups. I’m not sure if this is the right forum for making that suggestion, but thought I would mention it.
(Update: nevermind. I see that updates are ocurring regularly, it was only one missed that happened to be the one I was looking for. )
Discussion
Comment from admin on 21 September 2014 at 13:39
I don’t know what happened to the 1200 backup on Friday.
I do backups of the wiki, but these are complete database dumps, containing user data and all, so I can’t publish them. If anyone knows of a safe (against accidentally exposing critical data) and easy method of exporting mediawiki articles, please let me know.
Comment from Luciano on 21 September 2014 at 15:37
Thanks for the answer anyway, and as always, thanks for all your effort!
Comment from wangi on 23 September 2014 at 08:32
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DumpBackup.php
(it’s what all the Wikipedia wikis use for their published backups)