I used the following commands to backup and restore: mysqldump -h localhost -u user -p --default-character-set=binary database > database.sql mysql -u user -p -h localhost database < database.sql
Thanks! On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:07 PM John <phoenixoverr...@gmail.com> wrote: > How did you backup/restore the database? > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:56 PM Jingyi C. Shi <jshizh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi John, >> I backed up my database and the entire wiki folder. I didn't re-download >> MediaWiki this time. I directly loaded the backup database into the new >> server, and moved the entire wiki folder. I don't think the PHP versions on >> both servers are exactly the same. PHP on the new server is 7.4 while on >> the old one maybe 7.0 or similar. >> Thanks! >> Catherine >> >> Message: 2 >>> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:41:07 -0400 >>> From: John <phoenixoverr...@gmail.com> >>> Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Re: Pages not showing with error messages >>> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list >>> <mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >>> Message-ID: >>> <CAP-JHpmhOo67rCHoQ5LoEx=1-NNKg2+YegAbWc7u+8= >>> ajgi...@mail.gmail.com> >>> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; >>> boundary="00000000000015550905cf336298" >>> >>> How are you doing the backup/restore? did you backup your database and >>> re-download mediawiki? are the versions of PHP the same on both servers? >>> >>
_______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list -- mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to mediawiki-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
