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Answer backup size and explain how backups of the new thing work.
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=== Prior to the move === | === Prior to the move === | ||
# A complete backup of the wiki will be made (done as of November 14, 2014) | # A complete backup of the wiki will be made (done as of November 14, 2014 ... gzipped up without the cache the backup is 517Mb) | ||
# The backup of WikiIndex will be restored at another temporary domain. | # The backup of WikiIndex will be restored at another temporary domain. | ||
# MediaWiki will be upgraded to the most recent version (as will the extensions). | # MediaWiki will be upgraded to the most recent version (as will the extensions). | ||
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=== Post move === | === Post move === | ||
# If the community wants to switch canonical domains from wikiindex.org to index.wiki that can be arranged. | # If the community wants to switch canonical domains from wikiindex.org to index.wiki that can be arranged. | ||
# On the new platform backups of all wikis are made every hour and the last 12 hours of backups are retained on the server itself. Every 24hrs a backup of the wiki is uploaded to s3 (an offsite backup) and these backups are slowly pruned over time in a manner similar to how Apple's Time Machine works. | |||
== FAQs == | == FAQs == | ||