Esolang:Wiki preservation
From Esolang
The wiki database is dumped every day at 23:00 UTC or so. The latest dump can be found here:
http://esoteric.voxelperfect.net/db/latest.sql.bz2
By copying this file to your own computer, you can help prevent the wiki from suddenly dying. This is not very likely to happen, but it never hurts to be careful.
[edit] Automatic backups
To set up a cron job to automatically download the file, follow these steps:
- Create a file named
.crontab
containing the line
5 HOUR * * * /PATH/wget -P /DESTINATION http://esoteric.voxelperfect.net/db/latest.sql.bz2 -O /DESTINATION/latest.sql.bz2
- PATH is replaced by the absolute path to wget (for example, /usr/bin)
- DESTINATION is replaced by the destination directory
- HOUR is replaced by the hour (for UTC, use 23).
- The digit 5 represents the number of minutes past the hour to run the command.
- Run the command
crontab .crontab
[edit] Mirrors
The database dump is mirrored at:
- http://kidsquid.com/esowiki/ by Jeffry Johnston. Mirrored daily. Please contact me if this appears to go down, rather than removing it from this page.
- On request by Pedro Gimeno (see homepage for contact address)
