New backup carried out on anarwiki.org by root at local Tue Apr 30 11:13:12 UTC 2024.

README.md

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-# AnarWiki
-Anarchist Wiki
+## MediaWiki Overview
+
+https://anarwiki.org/
+
+A successor to the Libertarian Socialist Wiki
+
+https://github.com/AnarDocs/LibSocWiki
+
+## MediaWiki Backup
+
+AnarWiki is backed up nightly
+
+We use a version of this backup script -
+
+https://gist.github.com/svenk/57c3930825b5e9e403a26ab6922d2ac8
+
+CronTab details -
+
+```
+30 1 * * * /var/www/html/mediawiki/backupper/cron.sh
+```
+
+This (of course) calls /var/www/html/mediawiki/backupper/cron.sh -
+
+```
+# changed from original
+nice ./backup-private.sh && ./git-backup.sh && ./markdown-backup.sh
+```
+
+which calls the following -
+
+* /var/www/html/mediawiki/backupper/backup-private.sh
+* /var/www/html/mediawiki/backupper/markdown-export.sh
+* /var/www/html/mediawiki/backupper/git-backup.sh
+
+/var/www/html/mediawiki/backupper/markdown-export.sh -
+
+requires this script - https://github.com/outofcontrol/mediawiki-to-gfm
+
+```
+# The same as git-backup.sh except this is added at the start -
+# Export to markdown
+/var/www/html/mediawiki/backupper/convert.php --filename=/var/www/html/mediawiki/backupper/assets/full-dump.xml --output=/var/www/html/mediawiki/backupper/markdown
+backup_directory="markdown"
+git_work_directory="markdown-git"
+```
+
+### Backup Locations
+
+The remote backups are here -
+
+https://github.com/AnarDocs/AnarWiki
+
+Locally the MediaWiki backups are here -
+
+* /var/www/html/mediawiki/backupper/assets
+
+* /var/www/html/mediawiki/backupper/markdown
+
+Mirror - TO BE ADDED
+
+### MediaWiki Restore
+
+If you need to restore a backup on the existing server -
+
+https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Restoring_a_wiki_from_backup
+
+Individual markdown files can be converted to mediawiki format using -
+
+`pandoc -f markdown -t mediawiki INPUT.md -o OUTPUT.wiki`
+
+#### Restoring To A New Server
+
+If you need to restore a backup to a new server -
+
+Follow the instructions here -
+
+https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installing_MediaWiki
+
+(ideally use the current AnarWiki MediaWiki version - at least initially)
+
+Install the backup scripts as above to continue future backups.
+
+for the rest follow the "In Place Backup" instructions
+
+### Notes
+
+AnarWiki currently uses a Gmail account for contact messages / account confirmations. This should change in the near future.
+