-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ?erých Jakub wrote: I think that it's better to download 1.7.1 to the new server, move the database and LocalSettings.php to there, and then upgrading to 1.8.2, because if you upgrade this way, you have a built-in utility to do this (just run "maintenance/update.php" from the command line after updating the files to 1.8), and you preserve *all* the previous data, including blocks, users, sysops, etc.

FWIW, I migrated some 70+ wikis to a new server. It went far smoother and faster than what I had allotted. I'd already done some restores, so I had the process down for individual wikis. I now host over 100 wikis. I make full backups weekly to an offsite 1tb RAID 5 NAS, and I make daily automated backups of all databases (locally stored - RAID 1). For the migration, I brought down the old server's external access (httpd, vsftpd). Shut down MySQL. Did a final mysqldump of all dbs. Copied the db SQL to the new server. Copied all the old folders over (by mounting the old server's root as a mnt on the new server). Copied over the httpd.conf's virtualhost entries (all at the end). Did a mysql < .sql to restore the dump to the new server. Started httpd again and everything worked great. I've also done dozens of upgrades from 1.3.x and 1.4.x and 1.5.x to a 1.7.1-based baseline. For those, I rename localsettings, copy in the new files, run the install, update the newly-created localsettings with any customizations (always at the bottom). No problems. - MHart