[OSM-talk] Offline Dump of the Wiki

[Tom Hughes]

On 17/11/09 09:27, Lester Caine wrote:
> Tom Hughes wrote:
>
>> Please do not do anything as daft as trying to mirror the wiki with
>> wget. The poor machine can barely cope with serving real users without
>> also having to handle that.
>
> What database is the wiki running on? My own sites I simply have a backup of
> that running and rsync the backup along with the images directory to the backup
> machine. Very little load on either machine ....

What does our backup strategy have to do with the question of whether or 
not it's a good idea to mirror the wiki with wget?

For what it's worth, the wiki is backed up nightly to a separate 
physical location.

Tom

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