Thanks Brion. I was trying to restore over an existing database and your suggestion seemed to work fine.

Is there any potential problems importing a backup database over an existing one?

Thanks, Chuck

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 2:20 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Dumping and restoring database

On Oct 6, 2004, at 10:36 AM, Chuck Bishop wrote:

I found some information on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_move_a_MediaWiki_Database regarding dumping and restoring the sql database. The dump seems to work fine. However, when I try to restore the database, I receive the error, ERROR 1050 at line 11: Table 'archive' already exists

Were you restoring into a blank, newly created database or one that already had a wiki in it?

If the latter, you need to either manually remove the old tables or make your dump with the --add-drop-tables or --opt options to mysqldump.

How can I restore the database? Also, are there any other files which should be backed up?

Uploaded images and any config or customized code files that you want to keep.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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