On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 12:07 AM, Jean Valjean jeanvaljean2718@gmail.com wrote:
Today, a friend of mine had a few really long wiki pages whose revision histories he wanted to delete (specifically, chapters 1-117 of The Count of Monte Cristo), to save some space in his database. So, he went to do php deleteOldRevisions.php --delete and then, oops, his finger slipped, and he accidentally hit enter when he meant to enter the page IDs. So he lost the old revisions for every page on his wiki. (See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DeleteOldRevisions.php )
That really stinks, but that's why I use a simple script [1] to backup wikis in seconds prior to DB maintenance.
With this script saved in my ~/bin folder, I can simply "backup.db.sh wiki"
[1] https://freephile.org/wiki/Mysqldump
Greg Rundlett https://eQuality-Tech.com https://equality-tech.com/ https://freephile.org