On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 12:07 AM, Jean Valjean <jeanvaljean2718(a)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