Media Wiki Restoration

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Overview

This procedure documents restoration of a site instance backed up with the Media Wiki Backup procedure. Restoration implies performing a full new installation of the latest LTS version as a prerequisite, as described here Media Wiki Installation.

Create the Database

Use the restoration script to create the database and the database user being restored, then restore the database.

Post Restoration

Database Cleanup

Drop the temporary database and user:

DROP DATABASE tmp_mediawiki_db;
DROP USER 'tmp_mediawiki_user'@'localhost';
COMMIT;

TO DEPLETE

DEPLETE and INTEGRATE: Restoring a Wiki into the Same or Newer MediaWiki Version