[pmwiki-users] Syncing / migrating a wiki configuration

Oguz Altun oguz at ce.yildiz.edu.tr
Fri May 27 06:26:49 CDT 2011



27/05/2011 12:23, Oguz Altun yazmış:
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>
> 27/05/2011 11:22, Oliver Betz yazmış:
>> Oguz Altun wrote:
>>
>>> I have this wiki installation that I spend quite a time to install
>>> recipes, write my own download application, etc... So, I want to just
>>> transfer (some of) it to this new site, change the logo, skin, etc, and
>>> get a new site with hopefully much less work. In fact It would be real
>>> fine to periodically sync them, to ease maintaining.
>>>
>>> The two sites are running on linux machines, and my only access is
>>> through ftp. So, no rsync or unison to me. Furthermore, my desktop
>>
>> not even SFTP or FTPS?
> Nope. Just plain ftp.
>
>>
>>> machine is a windows. So when I transfer to my desktop, e.g. by wget,
>>> permissions are lost. Big down for me.
>>
>> Why wget?
>
> There was a nice description of using wget here:
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/BackupAndRestore
>
>>
>>> So, how can I transfer/sync these two? Thx.
>>
>> Since you are using Windows, try Beyond Compare Pro from Scooter
>> Software http://www.scootersoftware.com/ - it's priceless!
>>
>> What are your specific need regarding permissions? You can't easily
>> mirror the linux permissions to your local copy on the Windows
>> machine, so you need another plan to get them right.
> I am not sure what my specific needs are. Just that when I look to the
> permissions on the working site, I see files/folders with different
> permissions. And I would rather not mess with them.
>
>>
>> Beyond Compare does not copy ermissions even between two sftp accounts
>> on unixoid machines, but it sets default permissions: owner
>> read/write, group read, world read.
>>
>> You can set attributes manually for a set of files in Beyond Compare.
>
> I would really not do that manually.
>

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