Yep this is Debian specific. I have a system running Debian Wheezy; up to date; AMD 6 core processor; 4GB ram. Terabytes of disk space. This computer is in my office, not a remote. I am trying to use command line instructions to restore/import a database that I exported a few weeks back from a remote server. I was able to do this on the remote server using command lines, but after finishing the import the server admins decided I was using too much of the VPS servers resources and shut it down with no notice.I decided to bring it in house again.The Database is 2.28 Gb & is from a Mediawiki site. I'm not using any GUI such as PhpMyAdmin, though I have those available. The php limitations will not allow it to finish using PhpMyAdmin or Mediawiki's import structures. Since I did this on a Debian remote host I figured no prob here. Not so. I logged in as root, not connected to the internet, to do the import.
issued this command; mysql -v -u root -p MyDBName < MyDump.sql put in root password, & watched some screen output that resembled the Matrix for 2 days. System was accidentally interrupted & quit. I restarted it and waited 2 more days, server just quit. Now for the differences; On my remote server I created a completely empty database then did the import. Then reinstalled the upgraded Mediawiki and managed it as a mediawiki upgrade. Here I tried to use the existing installation which was new and do the restore as an upgrade. Now this is my question; Any one know why this doesn't work. I'm now trying the new empty db here to see if I can get it to work. However even if I do, i want tosolve this issue so I don't repeat it. There are some serious benefits to restoring to a populated database that I want to preserve. Also I have successfully used PhpMyAdmin to do that with much smaller databases. Thanks john -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1393702424.28315.18.ca...@beast.johnwfoster.com