From 22a2c3b9bfadaee03adbe5e9209131138502d241 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Diekershoff Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 15:10:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] added a short note about backups to the INSTALL files --- INSTALL.txt | 12 +++++++++++- doc/Install.md | 8 ++++++++ doc/de/Install.md | 8 ++++++++ 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt index c42c08971..1cab3412e 100644 --- a/INSTALL.txt +++ b/INSTALL.txt @@ -140,7 +140,17 @@ $a->config['system']['addon'] = 'js_upload,poormancron'; and save your changes. -9. (Optional) Reverse-proxying and HTTPS +9. (Optional) Set up a backup plan + +Bad things will happen. Be them a hardware failure, a currupted database +or whatever you can think of. So once the installation of your Friendica +node is done, you should make yoursef a backup plan. + +The most important file is the `.htconfig.php` file in the base directory. +As it stores all your data, you should also have a recent dump of your +Friendica database at hand, should you have to recover your node. + +10. (Optional) Reverse-proxying and HTTPS Friendica looks for some well-known HTTP headers indicating a reverse-proxy terminating an HTTPS connection. While the standard from RFC 7239 specifies diff --git a/doc/Install.md b/doc/Install.md index 53df55be0..257d62778 100644 --- a/doc/Install.md +++ b/doc/Install.md @@ -144,3 +144,11 @@ The addon tree has to be updated separately like so: cd mywebsite/addon git pull + +###Set up a backup plan +Bad things will happen. +Be them a hardware failure, a currupted database or whatever you can think of. +So once the installation of your Friendica node is done, you should make yoursef a backup plan. + +The most important file is the `.htconfig.php` file in the base directory. +As it stores all your data, you should also have a recent dump of your Friendica database at hand, should you have to recover your node. diff --git a/doc/de/Install.md b/doc/de/Install.md index db8fb965d..7c0b87fbb 100644 --- a/doc/de/Install.md +++ b/doc/de/Install.md @@ -108,3 +108,11 @@ Du kannst auch weitere Addons/Plugins ergänzen. Ändere den Eintrag folgenderma `$a->config['system']['addon'] = 'js_upload,poormancron';` und speichere deine Änderungen. + +###Erstelle einen Backup Plan +Es werden schlimme Dinge geschehen. +Sei es nun ein Hardwareversage oder eine korrumpierte Datenbank. +Deshalb solltest du dir nachdem die Installation deines Friendica Knotens abgeschlossen ist einen Backup Plan erstellen. + +Die wichtigste Datei ist die `.htconfig.php` im Stammverzeichnis deiner Friendica Installation. +Und da alle Daten in der Datenbank gespeichert werden, solltest du einen nicht all zu alten Dump der Friendica Datenbank zur Hand haben, solltest du deinen Knoten wieder herstellen müssen.