Thread:Project:Support desk/which mediawiki table for a backup/reply (3)

Based on what I wrote above: Yes, restore them.

That the table recentchanges does not contain all rows, but only the few last hundred/thousand, might be no problem. MediaWiki might remove old rows from that table. See Manual:Recentchanges_table for details.

However, if you think that your backup is kind of broken, I guess you should better take another backup, which you know is OK.