[Mediawiki-l] Way to recover from corrupt databases?

[Nick Triantos]

Thanks.  I've gotten very good at repairing the tables over the past 
couple of days  :-/, but I'd still like to understand the root cause, 
and especially if there are more mediawiki-specific tools to try to 
recover / export the data if I need it.

I enabled the debug log, and all I see that's suspicious is frequent 
abrupt exits from RawPage::view, line 59 of includes/RawPage.php.  From 
looking at the code, it looks like perhaps that line of code shouldn't 
be in that function??

I'm running mediawiki version 1.3.1, btw.

thanks,
-Nick

Brion Vibber wrote:

> Nick Triantos wrote:
>
>> I just installed mediawiki a week ago.  I love the product, but
>> something seems to be very wrong with the sql databases on which the
>> wiki is driven.  I've gotten corruption about 5 times already.  Now,
>> when I browse to the wiki server, Firefox doesn't even return an empty
>> page, it looks like php is hanging or crashing (not sure which).
>>
>> Is there any way to somewhat manually recover data from the databases?
>> Is there any way to meaningfully export and re-import the data?
>
>
> Start here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Repair.html
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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