Backing up and restoring wiki server

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Backing up and restoring wiki server

Is there a way to backup the wiki server data that can be restored later? Preferably via command line. Is there a directory that contains database files or something like that, that can just be copied to an external source, then recopied back after a clean install? Thanks.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Mar 24, 2011 12:30 PM

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jgalicinski

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Apr 15, 2011 8:30 AM in response to mickey13

Yes. All the wiki databases are located here:

/Library/Collaboration

You could tar up this folder like:
cd /Library
sudo tar -czvf wiki_backup.tar.gz Collaboration

then, when you need to restore it:
cd /Library
sudo rm -fr Collaboration
sudo tar -xzvf wiki_backup.tar.gz

The only thing that annoying is, after you restore the directory, the wiki formatting is all messed up. To resolve this, you need to reboot the server. Unless anyone else knows how to fix it?

Hope that helps.

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mickey13 Author

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Apr 15, 2011 12:22 PM in response to jgalicinski

Great, I'll give that a shot. How does it reference wiki / blog authors? Is that by [LDAP] user ID (integer assigned by the system when user is created) or user short name?

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mickey13 Author

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Apr 21, 2011 2:11 PM in response to jgalicinski

Thanks again for your advice. For the most part that worked great. I'm having some permission problems, but no formatting issues. I'll restart the machine tonight to see if that helps; otherwise, I'll just play around with it until it works.

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Answer 4

Aug 20, 2012 1:03 AM in response to mickey13

Hi that will help

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4224154

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