[Discuss] Opinions needed: wiki software

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:33:01 -0400
Daniel Barrett <dbarrett at blazemonger.com> wrote:

> Alternatively install 1.18 on your new system, restore the original
> dump into it, and then upgrade it to 1.20.  (If you can't upgrade the
> original wiki first.)

This will almost certainly break if you try to move between different
architectures. PowerPC to AMD64, for example. Assuming you can even get
the old database engine running on the new hardware.

> Or do the transfer directly: run the scripts
> maintenance/dumpBackup.php and maintenance/importDump.php to export
> and import the XML dump of the entire wiki, respectively.

Difficult to do if the old hardware fails and you don't have a spare.

-- 
Rich P.