Aryeh Gregor schrieb: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 2:43 PM, <jida...@jidanni.org> wrote: >> OK, but then the structure of those tables are gone from the dump too, >> not just their contents. We cannot thus recover from scratch straight >> from the SQL dump. But perhaps we then can immediately run a >> maintenance script to recreate the missing tables' structure? > > Then you could just do > > $ mysqldump --ignore-table=my_database.wiki_objectcache > --ignore-table=my_database.wiki_searchindex my_database > backup.sql > $ mysqldump -d my_database wiki_objectcache wiki_searchindex >> backup.sql
Or you can make an extra backup with just the structure: mysqldump -d yourdatabase > structure.sql or use maintenance/tables.sql to re-create the structure (if you use a table prefix, you need to run an appropriate search&replace first). -- daniel _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
