canasta backup create

Create a backup

Synopsis

Create a backup snapshot. Dumps all wiki databases, stages config/extensions/images/skins, and uploads to the repository.

A wiki whose data extends into a second database — Cargo's $wgCargoDBname being the usual case — declares it with canasta backup databases add.

Declared databases are dumped in the same invocation as the wiki's own, so both come from one transaction. That matters for Cargo, whose data tables live in the extra database while the metadata tracking them (cargo_pages) lives in the wiki database: captured at different moments, the metadata under-reports, and editing an affected page appends duplicate rows instead of replacing them.

canasta backup create [flags]

Examples

canasta backup create -t before-upgrade

Flags

Flag	Shorthand	Description	Default	Required	Orchestrator
`--id`	`-i`	Canasta instance ID	*		Both
`--tag`	`-t`	Backup tag		✓	Both

* Defaults to the Canasta instance matching the current directory, if any.

Global flags

Flag	Shorthand	Description	Default	Required	Orchestrator
`--help`	`-h`	Show help message and exit			Both
`--verbose`	`-v`	Enable verbose output			Both