Hello, I have been reading the fine manual at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Restoring_a_wiki_from_backup
That ^ page suggests I might delete any dubious database before restoring into it. My wiki seemed to be working fine. But I didn't _feel_ fine. My imagination wove lots of imaginary oops into trying to restore a MW1.31.1 database into itself after having run MW1.35.1 maintenance/update.php on it. So I did the following -- I moved the old database, created new database, restored database, as follows: I moved my database bilbo_teflpedia to bilbo_teflpedia_mush in cPanel >> MySQL Databases. (I could move it back if oops, or delete it later if all goes well.) Then I created a new empty bilbo_teflpedia database in cPanel >> MySQL Databases. Then I restored my wiki1.31.1 database into that new database from the command line with: -$ gunzip < ~/bu/bilbo_teflpedia.20210130.MW1.31.1.sql.gz | mysql -p bilbo_teflpedia Wiki seems to be working fine. Have I done that restore correctly? Roger For reference * production wiki v 1.31.1: https://teflpedia.com/Special:Version * test wiki v 1.35.1: https://tp.rogerchrisman.com/Special:Version _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
