Wiki Backups


There are nightly backups of the whole OUSFG Wiki, which are kept for 48 hours (ie we have the last two).

The backups are available here:

The purpose of these is to guard against vandalism: they provide a basis from which all or part of the wiki could be rolled back to an earlier state. Note that these aren't offsite backups or anything, so if urchin suffers a catastrophe, all is lost.

The archives are in Tar Gz format.

In archives predating 11:40 4/3/2003, the files are inside a directory called /home/twic/public-html/wiki/ (actually, the hyphen is an underscore); to extract an individual file from such an archive, use something like:

tar -xzvf wiki-archive-old.tar.gz /home/twic/public_html/wiki/BadAndWrong.twici

More recent archives store the files in the root directory of the archive; to extract an individual file from such an archive, use something like:

tar -xzvf wiki-archive-new.tar.gz BadAndWrong.twici

Or, in the old-skool way:

gzip -d < wiki-archive-new.tar.gz | tar -x BadAndWrong.twici

Wiki Backups will at some point be largely obsoleted by Wiki History.

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