Re: [Mediawiki-l] hard disk crash: try to recover the wiki. (Mediawiki 1.9.3 mysql)

2010-09-15 Thread Uwe Brauer
[snip] > The "show tables;" command within MySQL has to have the > semicolon at the end, or it doesn't work. Ok, this works and shows a list of tables. BTW how can I see the content of these tables? > What are you seeing in the logs that convinces you the > connection from MediaW

Re: [Mediawiki-l] hard disk crash: try to recover the wiki. (Mediawiki 1.9.3 mysql)

2010-09-15 Thread Uwe Brauer
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:56:05 +0600, Nyamul Hassan > wrote: [snip] > Good luck on getting your data back. > Regards > HASSAN Thanks for your detailed instructions I will try. Uwe ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] hard disk crash: try to recover the wiki. (Mediawiki 1.9.3 mysql)

2010-09-14 Thread Nyamul Hassan
First you need to recover the database, and see if all is in order, before you can be certain of no data loss. To do that, don't only copy the "maqwiki" folder, but I would recommend the whole "/var/lib/mysql" (if that is your mysql data folder). Once you copy that folder to a different machine,

Re: [Mediawiki-l] hard disk crash: try to recover the wiki. (Mediawiki 1.9.3 mysql)

2010-09-14 Thread George Herbert
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote: >> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:38:17 +0200, Platonides >> wrote: > >   > Uwe Brauer wrote: >   >> most of the  files are very small in size with the >   >> exception of searchindex.MYD and searchindex.MYI. I >   >> have no idea whether this is

Re: [Mediawiki-l] hard disk crash: try to recover the wiki. (Mediawiki 1.9.3 mysql)

2010-09-14 Thread Uwe Brauer
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:38:17 +0200, Platonides > wrote: > Uwe Brauer wrote: >> most of the files are very small in size with the >> exception of searchindex.MYD and searchindex.MYI. I >> have no idea whether this is "normal". >> Well I run strings and grep over these f

Re: [Mediawiki-l] hard disk crash: try to recover the wiki. (Mediawiki 1.9.3 mysql)

2010-09-13 Thread Platonides
Uwe Brauer wrote: > most of the files are very small in size with the >exception of searchindex.MYD and searchindex.MYI. I >have no idea whether this is "normal". > Well I run strings and grep over these files but the only > files with useful information are searchindex.MYD and searchindey.MYI

Re: [Mediawiki-l] hard disk crash: try to recover the wiki. (Mediawiki 1.9.3 mysql)

2010-09-13 Thread Uwe Brauer
> The files being small is not necessarily disaster. If you Wiki was > small the table files will be small. Well I run strings and grep over these files but the only files with useful information are searchindex.MYD and searchindey.MYI > Look at the Mediawiki logfiles, see if they're

Re: [Mediawiki-l] hard disk crash: try to recover the wiki. (Mediawiki 1.9.3 mysql)

2010-09-13 Thread George Herbert
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote: > > > > Hello > > This is a real nightmare. A Mac crashed, the hard disk could > be saved. Right now it can't be booted. That hard disk contained > the wiki of our department. > > I don't know precisely the version of the OS (most likely Mac X >

[Mediawiki-l] hard disk crash: try to recover the wiki. (Mediawiki 1.9.3 mysql)

2010-09-13 Thread Uwe Brauer
Hello This is a real nightmare. A Mac crashed, the hard disk could be saved. Right now it can't be booted. That hard disk contained the wiki of our department. I don't know precisely the version of the OS (most likely Mac X 10.4), nor the version of mysql (most likely 5.3.x) and to make things