Simon has posted a script to make backups of your site. I found it was fairly easy to modify it so that it would download (backup) from a list of TW files. Whatever method you use, this might be a good time to make sure you have a local copy of your files.

Well, it runs under linux. Probably can run under cygwin (Windows). Thank you Mark. I didn’t realize those were the premises so I’m thinking maybe I’ll just backup the more important ones. I’ll first convince myself that it is “A wonderful opportunity for reviewing my stuff.”

Backups are good… But TiddlyHost also archives my backup history (on a paid plan), and is — as far as I know — the only game in town for functioning smoothly — “plug and play” as it were — as a web host. (I did work with github for a couple of projects, but sending students to a github url — and/or…

That kind of backup is handy if you need to “time-travel”, to recover something you accidentally wrote over. But as an actual backup … you’re putting all your eggs in one basket, as the saying goes.

Of course, I back up my files locally on a regular basis, and with greater frequency whenever I’m doing big adventurous work — like “clipping in” while rock-climbing. But my point was that if TiddlyHost were to cease to be available (or to cease to be reliable), then an important feature (the fine-…

Ok, here’s a script that runs in PowerShell. But I tested it in Linux, so I might need some feedback. There might be pathing descrepancies. It would be neat if the shell could retry files after timeouts, but that is more than I am up to today. With this version, you make a file for your password, f…

[image] TiddlyHost: opening and saving wikis noticeably slow @Mark_S would you mind if I added your .ps1 file to tiddlyhost/examples at main · simonbaird/tiddlyhost · GitHub ? Or would you like to make a PR to do that yourself? That would be great! The caveat is that I haven’t heard back from …

For testing of course – on Linux. Powershell runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS. Powershell comes by default I think on Windows 10 and 11. It may have slight differences in abilities from the Linux/Mac version, but (I think) this usually relates to access to the hardware, which should be irrelevant f…

[image] Mark_S: It would be handy if someone out there ( @twMat ?) gave the script a test run on Windows. I’ll give it a try within a day or two. I didn’t previously because by the time you kindly posted it I had already backed-up almost everything manually. But I realize now that I probably d…

I’m working with this backup script, and it keeps stalling. My feeling is that the site problem isn’t over yet. I have gotten the powershell script to work on my old Win 7 machine. I forgot that Powershell actually works better under Linux than Windows. There’s a couple of extra steps people will n…

Scripts for Backing Up TiddlyHost

Mark_S August 20, 2024, 7:37pm 9

That would be great! The caveat is that I haven’t heard back from any Windows users.