[Mediawiki-l] Re: Re: 1.5rc4 - Backup & Restore (Rob Church)

[Stephan Weishaupt]

Thx , do you have a link I tried it with google but I found nothing
usefull so far
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I am not sure if I answered correctly it´s my first time with a mailinglist

Greetz Stephan


>There is a maintenance script which, IIRC, dumps the entire content of
>the wiki as a massive XML file. You could use this, and just back up
>the users tables if you wanted to cut down on the size of the file.
>Never tried this, however, so I don't know if it works; I'd guess it
>does, but...
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>Rob Church
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>On 27/09/05, Weishaupt, Stephan <weishaupt at ramada.de> wrote:
>> Hello i have a big problem:
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>> (version in my own forum with screenshots
>> http://forum.darklevel.org/viewtopic.php?p=15195#15195)
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>> i backup via phpmyadmin and everything seems to be fine ....
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>> Than i try to import the sql file via phpmyadmin and getting first
>> trouble cause i have a 2mb limit but than i tried a diffrent host and
>> there i get a error 1071 - Specified key was too long; max key length is
>> 1000 bytes
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>> The third thing i tried is:
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>> I set up an sql server at my workstation via xampp than than i created
>> via command line a new table and than i loaded the sql file in it.
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>> I had a few errors but first everything look fine all 26 tables were
>> build ..... than i tried to acess the wiki and just the headlines are
>> there everything else is gone :-(
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>> Greetz Stephan