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Are wiki pages backed up?
Hi,
Are our wiki pages (either old UseMod or new MoinMoin) backed up
regularly? Or maybe backed up somewhere like CVS? Is there something
we can do if someone maliciously edits a page and removes all content?
I apologize if I should know all this, or if this is the wrong list. I
did search the various MoinMoin FAQs at wiki.apache.org, migration
guide, etc, and saw no mention of backups. But maybe it's such an
obvious yes that no one saw the need to document it ;) I just want to
confirm. Thanks,
Yoav Shapira
Millennium Research Informatics
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Re: Are wiki pages backed up?
Posted by se...@apache.org.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>
To: "Jakarta General List" <ge...@jakarta.apache.org>
Cc: <le...@apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:27 PM
Subject: RE: Are wiki pages backed up?
> > Are our wiki pages (either old UseMod or new MoinMoin) backed up
> > regularly? Or maybe backed up somewhere like CVS? Is there something
> > we can do if someone maliciously edits a page and removes all content?
>
> UseMod kinda, MoinMoin, I'm not sure. In the longer run, Greg is working on
> a Subversion-based Wiki that would be a drop-in replacement for our Moin
> Moin Wiki Farm.
>
Previous copies of pages are saved in the backup directory, for example (JMeter Wiki)
ls -l data/backup
total 142
-rwxrwxrwx 1 noel apsite 1334 Mar 4 11:01 FrontPage.1078426912
-rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody apsite 1440 Mar 5 03:59 FrontPage.1078487995
-rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody apsite 1996 Mar 10 14:41 FrontPage.1078958466
[...]
Anyone with shell access can restore an earlier version of a page. There may be a way using the Wiki too.
S.
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Re: Are wiki pages backed up?
Posted by Leo Simons <le...@apache.org>.
Noel J. Bergman wrote:
>>Are our wiki pages (either old UseMod or new MoinMoin) backed up
>>regularly?
nope. Manually, every now and then. How lame is that, huh? Need to
install a cronjob. Forgot about it several times now. Can someone please
add an entry to jira?
Moin does store previous revisions of files (in the 'backup' folder
alongside the 'text' folder), but not the latest revision. That, we can
retrieve, in theory, from the change notifications. In practice, we had
to do that when the avalon wiki was erronously wiped a while back, and
it is a major headache which takes hours to figure out.
If someone with enoug priviledges runs an rm -Rf in the wrong place
we've got a big problem.
> Or maybe backed up somewhere like CVS? Is there something
> >we can do if someone maliciously edits a page and removes all content?
yes, if the edit is through the web, that is easy enough (though not
enabled by default). The 'i' icon in the top right corner of each page
gets you a page with a link to the revision info. Click on the 'view' of
a revision, and replace 'action=recall' with 'action=raw'. You can
copy-paste that content in the edit pane of the page to restore it.
I think a better description is in the Moin FAQ.
I don't think anyone has modded moin to automate that process, probably
in part because...
> UseMod kinda, MoinMoin, I'm not sure. In the longer run, Greg is working on
> a Subversion-based Wiki that would be a drop-in replacement for our Moin
> Moin Wiki Farm.
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cheers,
- Leo Simons
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RE: Are wiki pages backed up?
Posted by "Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>.
> Are our wiki pages (either old UseMod or new MoinMoin) backed up
> regularly? Or maybe backed up somewhere like CVS? Is there something
> we can do if someone maliciously edits a page and removes all content?
UseMod kinda, MoinMoin, I'm not sure. In the longer run, Greg is working on
a Subversion-based Wiki that would be a drop-in replacement for our Moin
Moin Wiki Farm.
--- Noel
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