How to backup image files on MediaWiki 1.20.4 using dumpUploads.php

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I have run this same backup command on previous versions of MediaWiki (on Centos 6.4) and it has worked successfully but now when running this command on MediaWiki 1.20.4 - 

[root@wiki images]# php /var/www/html/wiki/maintenance/dumpUploads.php --base=$(pwd) | xargs -I foo cp 'foo' . -v

I get the following errors - 

cp: cannot stat `mwstore://local-backend/local-public/0/07/Xvidcap-test.swf': 
No such file or directory

I can see this is because the location does not exist but how can I get around this?

Josh

Posted 2013-04-23T08:36:20.343

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ugh, that can go wrong in quite many ways. Why don't you just tar cf images.tar /var/www/html/wiki/images/? – Nemo – 2015-05-03T12:34:10.260

Would there be the possibility to download the images manually? What is the mwstore? If I run a locate for the image it is not found but it is in the wiki. The defulat location for images is /var/www/html/wiki/images and there is a similar file structure [root@wiki images]# ls 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a archive b c d e f lockdir README thumb – Josh – 2013-04-26T12:44:52.423

Ok so my work around is this - find /var/www/html/wiki/images/ -type f -exec cp '{}' ./ ; – Josh – 2013-04-29T08:27:49.657

Answers

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Manual:dumpUploads.php recommends tar, like php maintenance/dumpUploads.php | xargs tar cf backup_files.tar.

However, if your aim is backup, you should preserve the directory structure you're using. As Manual:Backing up a wiki recommends, just use tar, e.g.:

tar caf images.tar.gz /var/www/html/wiki/images/

if you want to backup the uploads only and to compress them a bit.

Note, mwstore is the file backend.

Nemo

Posted 2013-04-23T08:36:20.343

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That hasn’t worked for at least a couple versions, not even at the time you posted it. You cannot directly tar output like mwstore://local-backend/local-public/example_2.png. – J. M. Becker – 2015-12-09T18:23:06.057

@TechZilla I'd call that a bug, but the first line is only an introduction to the matter. My proposed solution is the second command, did you try that? – Nemo – 2015-12-10T08:55:29.960

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