[Discuss] Opinions needed: wiki software

[dbarrett at blazemonger.com (Daniel Barrett)]

>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.)

On March 12, 2013, Rich Pieri wrote:
>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.

Hmmm... are you saying that the output of mysqldump cannot be reloaded into
a database on a different architecture?  That would be a significant
shortcoming of mysqldump.

>> 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.

Well yes, you can't "dump from the original system" if the original system
is dead. :-) Fortunately his wiki is up and running.

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