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=== Backup ===
Here are some quick notes about the backup routines for vdfwiki.com

*Backups of vdfwiki.com are now available by request
*http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Moving_a_wiki
*take snapshots of mysql dump and mediawiki settings  (using cygwin)
**tablesfile=vdfwiki-$(date +%Y%m%d).sql
**mysqldump -u root -p > $(tablesfile)
**mysqldump -u wikiuser -p wikidb > $(tablesfile) 
**snapshot=vdfwiki-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz
**tar cjf $(snapshot) 
*do a automated batch script that uploads the snapshots (cron)
**ncftpput: http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/doc/ncftpput.html
*Compression (bzip2): http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bzip2.htm
*offsite 1: Jacobs home server
*offsite 2: DAE ftp server