Server Migration: Backing Up and Importing To a New DB
Fragment of a discussion from Project:Support desk
Copying all the MediaWiki files from the previous install and importing the DB dump should suffice. Of course, you may need to tweak your configuration if two systems are different. Have you read Manual:Moving a wiki?
To summarize:
- No.
- You don't need to use import.php, which is for XML dumps. Use MySQL command-line client to import these dumps, e.g. [1]
