How did you backup/restore the database?

On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:56 PM Jingyi C. Shi <jshizhang@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi John,

I backed up my database and the entire wiki folder. I didn't re-download MediaWiki this time. I directly loaded the backup database into the new server, and moved the entire wiki folder. I don't think the PHP versions on both servers are exactly the same. PHP on the new server is 7.4 while on the old one maybe 7.0 or similar.

Thanks!

Catherine

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How are you doing the backup/restore? did you backup your database and
re-download mediawiki? are the versions of PHP the same on both servers?