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>