MediaWiki Backup Cookbook

This cookbook will backup a standalone MediaWiki server.

It will deploy a script and populate cron.d to execute it.

Attributes

• node['mediawiki_backup']['mailto'] - Email address for notifications. Default is root
• node['mediawiki_backup']['retention_days'] - Number of days to keep backups. Default is an 8 day rotation.
• node['mediawiki_backup']['backup_name'] - Name of the backup Tar file. Default is wiki_backup.
• node['mediawiki_backup']['wiki_dir'] - Location of the MediaWiki directory. Default is '/var/www/mediawiki'.
• node['mediawiki_backup']['wiki_conf'] - Location of the MediaWiki configuration. Default is '/etc/mediawiki'.
• node['mediawiki_backup']['ssl_certs'] - Locations of the Apache SSL Certs. Default is in EL '/etc/pki/tls/private/server.key', '/etc/pki/tls/certs/server.crt'.
• node['mediawiki_backup']['working_dir'] - Temporary working directory. Default is '/tmp'.
• node['mediawiki_backup']['backup_store'] - Which directory to store backups '/etc/wiki_backup'.
• node['mediawiki_backup']['cron']['minute'] - The minute at which the cron entry should run (0 - 59). Default value: *
• node['mediawiki_backup']['cron']['hour'] - The hour at which the cron entry is to run (0 - 23). Default value: 23
• node['mediawiki_backup']['cron']['day'] - The day of month at which the cron entry should run (1 - 31). Default value: *
• node['mediawiki_backup']['cron']['month'] - The month in the year on which a cron entry is to run (1 - 12). Default value: *
• node['mediawiki_backup']['cron']['weekday'] - The day of the week on which this entry is to run (0 - 6), where Sunday = 0. Default value: *

Usage

Set up the MediaWiki server backup attributes in a role. For example create a role called wikiserver.json the is applied to all MediaWiki standalone server.

{
    "name": "wikiserver",
    "description": "Role applied to MediaWiki Servers",
    "chef_type": "role",
    "json_class": "MediaWiki::Role",
    "default_attributes": {
      "mediawiki_backup": {
        "mailto": "backup@example.com",
        "retention_days": "8"
        "ssl_certs": [
          "/etc/pki/tls/private/server.key",
          "/etc/pki/tls/certs/server.crt"
        ]
      }
    },
    "run_list": ["mediawiki_backup"]
}

License and Authors

• Author:: Andrew Holt

Copyright (C) 2015  Andrew Holt

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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