[okfn-help] wordpress upgrade

Thu May 10 11:19:16 UTC 2012

Hi Adam,

it looks like it was the dropbox plugin which killed Mysql and
Wordpress, so we keep that disabled :-)

On a general note, we now disabled plugin and them installation/upgrade
through wordpress' admin web interface to prevent this from happening
again. We left a note at

  http://trac.okfn.org/wiki/WordpressService

Wrt WP backup: the blog farm is running on a managed server. Our hoster
Fry dumps the mysql DB is dumped nightly, and the dump together with the
wordpress installation itself (including plugins/themes/uploads) gets
backed up to remote locations.

If you want your personal backup of your blog site only, you can use
Wordpress' export feature (Tools ==> Export). There are command line
scripts to fetch the export for automation, e.g.

  https://raw.github.com/andrewharvey/shellmisc/master/wordpress_export.sh

I hope this helps,

/nils.

On 05/08/2012 02:10 PM, Adam Green wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to back up the PDR website... preferably to Dropbox (or some
> other 'cloud' situation).
> 
> Can i not use this Wordpress Backup to Dropbox Plugin?
> If not, what do people recommend? How are the other sites being backed
> up? Or is the PDR automatically backed up alongside others already?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Adam.
> 
> On 4 May 2012 00:23, Adam Green <adam.green at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Hi Nils,
>>
>> The only thing I did yesterday was install the Wordpress Backup to Dropbox
>> Plugin and activate it for the PDR site. Then i initialised a backup (which
>> didn't seem to work). Was it causing the problem with the multisite??
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Adam.
>>
>>
>> On 3 May 2012 18:54, Nils Toedtmann <nils.toedtmann at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Adam,
>>>
>>> we saw that someone installed a plugin into PublicDomainReview. Did you
>>> work on wordpress yesterday, e.g. upgrade it? If yes, can you tell us
>>> precisely what you did?
>>>
>>> BTW we disabled the dropbbox plugin for now until we are sure it's not
>>> harmful.
>>>
>>> /nils.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/03/2012 04:02 PM, Nils Toedtmann wrote:
>>>> Hi *,
>>>>
>>>> who did upgrade wordpress on the blog farm (s053) when and did not even
>>>> bother to tell the sysadmins - please step forward. We are having major
>>>> issues on the farm and would need some details about what has been
>>>> touched. Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> /nils.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> PS: and who installed the plugin "WordPress Backup to Dropbox"?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> See http://nils.toedtmann.net/ for contact details.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Adam Green
>>
>> Editor, The Public Domain Review
>> http://publicdomainreview.org/
>>
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>> http://okfn.org/
> 
> 
> 

-- 
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