JOSIF Main Page | Backup Process

Introduction

On the whole, Sourceforge is very reliable and perform weekly backups of all the projects on their site. However they recommend that individual projects also regularly back up their content.
Because of the amount of work being performed by the TIP Team on the OpenOSS site, it is important that there is a process in place to ensure that the whole site is backed up regularly. This page documents the process.

Please see this separate page for Exporting Wiki Pages As Text

Backup Procedure

Subversion, MediaWiki and MantisBT all need backed up on a weekly basis. Normally this will be done Friday afternoon UK time.

Sourceforge provides instructions for this at the following links

Hosted Apps Backup Facility Describes the procedure to use to backup MediaWiki and MantisBT. Both the SQL database and the Files should be downloaded and backed up. Please note that the MediaWiki files backup has stopped working by this method. Please use the curl method documented below.

Using rsync for backups describes how to backup Subversion. From a Linux system the following command can be used

rsync -av openoss.svn.sourceforge.net::svn/openoss/* .

Using Curl for backup

the mediawiki backup process doesn't always work on sourceforge. We need to use the recommended work around documented in http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/7661

to get mediawiki files or database use;

 curl --location-trusted 
    --user MySFUserName:MySFPassword \
    -d content=Database (or Files) \
    -d format=gzip \
    -d app=mediawiki \
 https://sourceforge.net/apps/backup/openoss/ >mediawiki_sql.gzip

for example

 curl --insecure  --location-trusted  --user cgallen:<PASSWORD>  -d content=Files -d format=gzip -d app=mediawiki https://sourceforge.net/apps/backup/openoss/ >mediawiki.gzip

Backups

List of backups performed.