Tag: wiki

I’ve had the need to restore the contents of a wiki which ran mediawiki, recently. Unfortunately there were no backups, and my only solution was to restore from an outdated version that was available in Google’s cache.

The problem was that I only had the HTML “output” version and copy-pasting it into the Wiki sources on restore time lost all formatting and links.

Thus I’ve come up with the following script which is con-ed to make systematic backups in the background, both of an offline viewable version of the wiki, in static HTML pages, and of the wiki pages’ sources, for eventual restoration.

It uses the marvelous httrack and wget tools.

Here we go :

#! /bin/sh

for page in $(grep "link updated: $site/index.php/" $backupdir/hts-log.txt | sed "s,^.*link updated: $site/index.php/,," | sed 's/ ->.*//' | grep -v Special:)
do
wget -nv -O $backupdir/$site/index.php/${page}_raw.txt "$topurl/index.php?index=$page&action=raw"
done


Hope this helps,