wiki/backup

You can help IndieWebCamp by downloading and keeping a backup of this wiki!

As of 2017-12-01 the wiki and images are about 500mb.

IMPORTANT: Make sure you download the files to a case-sensitive filesystem (OSX and Windows are not case sensitive by default).

You can also download an archive of the chat logs via https://github.com/indieweb/indieweb-chat-archive

Archive Methods

git

The wiki is synced to github.com every 5 minutes. Each wiki edit is saved as a git commit along with the edit message.

git clone https://github.com/indieweb/wiki.git

Pros

Supports incremental additions and deletions
Git repo stores full history of changed and deleted files
Will properly delete local files when the remote files are deleted
Does not require a password
Fast

Cons

Requires the server to export to text files and track changes, potentially more prone to errors

rsync

rsync -avz --delete --stats rsync://indieweb@indieweb.org/indiewebcamp_wiki indiewebcamp

Pros

Supports incremental changes
Will properly delete local files when the remote files are deleted
fast: ~10 minutes for a complete mirror, seconds for incremental update

Cons

Requires a password
Requires running a separate publicly-accessible daemon on the server

if you do this automatically, e.g. in a cron job, you'll want to use the --password-file option to rsync, which expects a file with just the password and chmod 600

wget

wget --execute robots=off --no-parent --wait=1 --mirror https://indieweb.org/wiki/backup/data/

Pros

Works over HTTP
Supports incremental changes

Cons

Local files won't be deleted when deleted on the server
slow: as of 2017-04-09 both new mirror and updating an existing one takes >2 hours (mostly due to the 1s delay between >6000 mostly tiny files, each of which has to be touched at each update). Not a big issue if run in cron, but annoying if done manually.