Some of you may remember (way back in "Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Re: 1.5.2 problems with MySQL 5.0.16?", six sad days ago) that my 1.5.3 wiki went away when I installed MySQL 5.0.16. <sob>It appears that none of the innodb tables are recoverable, even on my backup.</sob> The good news is, it was a young site. I'm now preparing a more rigorous backup regime for my more mature MediaWikis. (I know, I know: mechanic's torque wrench syndrome: "turn until it strips, then back off a quarter-turn..." :-) Luckily, for whatever reason, the changes database was MyISAM, so it's still good. (There's something to be said for separate database file sets.) But [[Special:Recentchanges]] wouldn't show any of it. HOWEVER, I stopped sobbing when I was showing a colleague how to get an RSS feed in her browser (Safari 2.0.2 rocks!) and I discovered that the changes were visible in the RSS feed! So I've copied what I could from the RSS feed, but am hungry to restore the entire site. So, my questions are: 1) is there a way to get more RSS out of it, like back to the Epoch? I searched in my prefs in the Browser, on MediaWiki, and also through includes/DefaultSettings.php to no avail. I recall seeing some "number of items" setting, but can't find it. 2) or better yet, is there some easier way to recover things from the changes? I looked at the database directory, and can't imagine where this history is coming from. :::: Our present economic system is... little more than a well- organized method for converting natural resources into garbage. -- Jay Hanson :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Van> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l