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+MediaWiki Backup
+----------------
+
+Usage:
+
+  backup.sh -d backup/directory -w installation/directory
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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# MediaWiki backup and archiving script for installations on Linux using MySQL.
+#
+# Copyright Sam Wilson 2013 CC-BY-SA
+# http://samwilson.id.au/public/MediaWiki
+#
+
+
+################################################################################
+## Output command usage
+function usage {
+    local NAME=$(basename $0)
+    echo "Usage: $NAME -d backup/dir -w installation/dir"
+}
+
+################################################################################
+## Get and validate CLI options
+function get_options {
+    while getopts 'd:w:' OPT; do
+        case $OPT in
+            d) BACKUP_DIR=$OPTARG;;
+            w) INSTALL_DIR=$OPTARG;;
+        esac
+    done
+
+    ## Check WIKI_WEB_DIR
+    if [ -z $INSTALL_DIR ]; then
+        echo "Please specify the wiki directory with -w" 1>&2
+        usage; exit 1;
+    fi
+    if [ ! -f $INSTALL_DIR/LocalSettings.php ]; then
+        echo "No LocalSettings.php found in $INSTALL_DIR" 1>&2
+        exit 1;
+    fi
+    INSTALL_DIR=$(cd $INSTALL_DIR; pwd -P)
+    echo "Backing up wiki installed in $INSTALL_DIR"
+
+    ## Check BKP_DIR
+    if [ -z $BACKUP_DIR ]; then
+        echo "Please provide a backup directory with -d" 1>&2
+        usage; exit 1;
+    fi
+    if [ ! -d $BACKUP_DIR ]; then
+        mkdir --parents $BACKUP_DIR;
+        if [ ! -d $BACKUP_DIR ]; then
+            echo -n "Backup directory $BACKUP_DIR does not exist" 1>&2
+            echo " and could not be created" 1>&2
+            exit 1;
+        fi
+    fi
+    BACKUP_DIR=$(cd $BACKUP_DIR; pwd -P)
+    echo "Backing up to $BACKUP_DIR"
+
+}
+
+################################################################################
+## Parse required values out of LocalSetttings.php
+function get_localsettings_vars {
+    LOCALSETTINGS="$INSTALL_DIR/LocalSettings.php"
+
+    DB_HOST=`grep "wgDBserver" $LOCALSETTINGS | cut -d\" -f2`
+    DB_NAME=`grep "wgDBname" $LOCALSETTINGS  | cut -d\" -f2`
+    DB_USER=`grep "wgDBuser" $LOCALSETTINGS  | cut -d\" -f2`
+    DB_PASS=`grep '^\$wgDBpassword' $LOCALSETTINGS  | cut -d\" -f2`
+    echo "Logging in as $DB_USER to $DB_HOST to backup $DB_NAME"
+
+    # Try to extract default character set from LocalSettings.php
+    # but default to binary
+    DBTableOptions=$(grep '$wgDBTableOptions' $LOCALSETTINGS)
+    CHARSET=$(echo $DBTableOptions | sed -E 's/.*CHARSET=([^"]*).*/\1/')
+    if [ -z $CHARSET ]; then
+        CHARSET="binary"
+    fi
+
+    echo "Character set in use: $CHARSET"
+}
+
+################################################################################
+## Add $wgReadOnly to LocalSettings.php
+## Kudos to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Megam0rf/WikiBackup
+function toggle_read_only {
+    local MSG="\$wgReadOnly = 'Backup in progress.';"
+    local LOCALSETTINGS="$INSTALL_DIR/LocalSettings.php"
+
+    # If already read-only
+    grep "$MSG" "$LOCALSETTINGS" > /dev/null
+    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+
+        echo "Entering read-only mode"
+        grep "?>" "$LOCALSETTINGS" > /dev/null
+        if [ $? -eq 0 ];
+        then
+            sed -i "s/?>/\n$MSG/ig" "$LOCALSETTINGS"
+        else
+            echo "$MSG" >> "$LOCALSETTINGS"
+        fi 
+
+    # Remove read-only message
+    else
+
+        echo "Returning to write mode"
+        sed -i "s/$MSG//ig" "$wikidir"/LocalSettings.php
+
+    fi
+}
+
+################################################################################
+## Dump database to SQL
+## Kudos to https://github.com/milkmiruku/backup-mediawiki
+function export_sql {
+    SQLFILE=$BACKUP_PREFIX"-database.sql.gz"
+    echo "Dumping database to $SQLFILE"
+    nice -n 19 mysqldump --single-transaction \
+        --default-character-set=$CHARSET \
+        --host=$DB_HOST \
+        --user=$DB_USER \
+        --password=$DB_PASS \
+        $DB_NAME | gzip -9 > $SQLFILE
+
+    # Ensure dump worked
+    MySQL_RET_CODE=$?
+    if [ $MySQL_RET_CODE -ne 0 ]; then
+        ERR_NUM=3
+        echo "MySQL Dump failed! (return code of MySQL: $MySQL_RET_CODE)" 1>&2
+        exit $ERR_NUM
+    fi
+}
+
+################################################################################
+## XML
+## Kudos to http://brightbyte.de/page/MediaWiki_backup
+function export_xml {
+    XML_DUMP=$BACKUP_PREFIX"-pages.xml.gz"
+    echo "Exporting XML to $XML_DUMP"
+    cd "$INSTALL_DIR/maintenance"
+    php -d error_reporting=E_ERROR dumpBackup.php --quiet --full \
+    | gzip -9 > "$XML_DUMP"
+}
+
+################################################################################
+## Export the images directory
+function export_images {
+    IMG_BACKUP=$BACKUP_PREFIX"-images.tar.gz"
+    echo "Compressing images to $IMG_BACKUP"
+    cd "$INSTALL_DIR"
+    tar --exclude-vcs -zcf "$IMG_BACKUP" images
+}
+
+################################################################################
+## Main
+
+# Preparation
+get_options $@
+get_localsettings_vars
+toggle_read_only
+
+# Exports
+BACKUP_PREFIX=$BACKUP_DIR/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
+export_sql
+export_xml
+export_images
+
+## End main
+################################################################################
+
+# eh? what's this do? exec > /dev/null