On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 12:07 AM, Jean Valjean <[email protected]> wrote:
> Today, a friend of mine had a few really long wiki pages whose revision > histories he wanted to delete (specifically, chapters 1-117 of The Count of > Monte Cristo), to save some space in his database. So, he went to do php > deleteOldRevisions.php --delete and then, oops, his finger slipped, and he > accidentally hit enter when he meant to enter the page IDs. So he lost the > old revisions for every page on his wiki. (See > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DeleteOldRevisions.php ) > That really stinks, but that's why I use a simple script [1] to backup wikis in seconds prior to DB maintenance. With this script saved in my ~/bin folder, I can simply "backup.db.sh wiki" [1] https://freephile.org/wiki/Mysqldump Greg Rundlett https://eQuality-Tech.com <https://equality-tech.com/> https://freephile.org _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
