[xwiki-dev] How to backup standalone instalation

[Vincent Massol]

Hi Alain,

On Jun 10, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Alain M. wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> First of all, it is the *first time* I post *anything* on this  
> list. So I do sincerely not believe that I stepped over any  
> netiquete rules. I did make my reseash and I dis spend hours  
> testind and searching. I just expected to be better received in  
> this comunity.

How many Alain M are there on this list?

A first email was sent by Alain M on the 2nd of June on the user list:
http://tinyurl.com/24lhhl

A second email was sent on exactly the same topic on the 2nd of June  
on the dev list (crossposted):
http://tinyurl.com/2azlq5

A third email on exactly the same topic was sent by Alain M on the  
7th of June on the user list:
http://tinyurl.com/yw8pks

Nabble says all these users are the same and are known as alainm-2.

If by some miracle this is not you then I truly apologize...

Anyway as I told you in my email I've already answered to your  
question so if you could please stop asking (you've asked again in  
your answer below!) and instead try to read my answer that I keep  
pointing you too that would be great (I did spend some of my free  
time during the week end answering you instead of spending it with my  
kids...).

> AND I didn't bet ANY usefull answers *at all*. Nobody seems to know  
> were the database is, nor seems to care!

Not true. See above. BTW your first message was quite nice and there  
was no need to cross post it. You would have received some answer  
anyway with such a nice message ;)

> Now that I have used my constitutional right to deffend myself,  
> let's go to the point.
> -------------
>
> Does anyone kow where the database is?????? Xwiki is the nices wiki  
> around, but I cannot use it if no backup is possible!

See my answer in http://tinyurl.com/yw8pks ;)

-Vincent

>
> Details are in tha originaç message below.
>
> Thanks again to any nice soul that can help,
> Alain
>
>> On Jun 9, 2007, at 4:13 AM, alainm at pobox.com wrote:
>>> I have searced the xwiki site, list history, the web, subscribed  
>>> to xwiki-users, before asking this:
>>>
>>> I am running xwiki standalone, the file is wiki-1.1- 
>>> milestone-1.tar.gz and it says "Standalone installation including  
>>> a Jetty container and an HSQLDB database all set up. Should be  
>>> used by first-time users"
>>>
>>> Please tell me where are the files (or directories) that I need  
>>> to save to have a full backup. Both database and configs but not  
>>> the libs. It is running in /home/alain/dev/java/xwiki.
>>>
>>> I compared the original .tar.gz with my modified xwiki, appart  
>>> from logs, only these files are different:
>>>   db/xwiki_db.script
>>>   db/xwiki_db.properties (only the date changed)
>>>   temp/imageCache/       (empty directory, belongs to root)
>>>
>>> db/xwiki_db.script looks like an sql-dump, and my modifications  
>>> are included. Could it be that a database dump is created every  
>>> time I modify something? Anyway the database apears *not* to be  
>>> inside the xwiki directory...
>>>
>>> PLEASE HELP, I want to make a full backup, but without all the  
>>> libs and fixed stuff (the whole directory is 55Mb! ).
>>>
>>> Thansk for any help,
>>> Alain