On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote: > Tain't your fault Suds - stuff happens! Yup, I think we've all been there, and the fact that you were at least trying to back it up is a step in the right direction :). Setting up a backup system is a tedious enough chore, but to do it right you really need to do an even more onerous chore, which is to test the backup with a simulated outage and see if you can get the system functional. At my last job we had a lot of failover systems and emergency plans, but they really only started to get fully bulletproof when we started doing simulated failures and actually had to put the plans into practice. Then the plans got better :). Same is true for backup schemes--if it's not tested, you should just assume it's not backed up. Not saying this to rub salt in the wound, just a suggestion for next time. I'm willing to help with whatever you need (I'm not the one that runs several mediawikis though). I can do most stuff a developer would know how to do with linux, apache, mysql or postgresql, and perl, and I can usually figure out what's going on with php although I've never really developed anything in it. When you have the system ready and you want to test going from nothing but the backup files to a full restore on a bare machine, I'm willing to be the guinea pig that tries to do it and helps complete the documentation or whatever. Just let me know. mike > > Good idea to just go ahead and rebuild the darn thing - its just too good an > idea to let it slide. > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@gmail.com> wrote: > >> that would be me. >> my backup scheme only included the webhome, and not the MySQL backend. >> there is a listee who runs a few mediawiki sites, and had interest in >> hosting. >> if he could publicly chime with a way to submit articles, maybe we could be >> back up soon? :) >> >> cheers, >> sudhir. >> >> On May 3, 2010 8:30 PM, "Marius Strom" <marstrom@microsoft.com> wrote: >> >> Has anyone tried to get in touch with the guy that ran the Vanagon Wiki? >> Would there be interest in restarting it from scratch if it's never going >> to come back? (I can host it if need be) >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf >> ... >> > > > > -- > Jake > > 1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX 'The Grey Van' > 1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Suby 'Dixie' > > Crescent Beach, BC > > www.thebassspa.com > www.crescentbeachguitar.com > http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27 > |
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