Thread:Project:Support desk/No Data in Backup File

We took down our wiki last year. We now want to get some pages from it that we forgot to copy over to our new support system.

Our IT guy gave me a wikidb.bak file that is supposed to be a backup of our wiki database. It is a standard MySQL script file. The problem is that all of the text data in the tables seem to be empty. There are a whole bunch of records in the pages and text tables, but they all contain '' as the value for them.

We are not trying to restore the whole wiki. I just need to get some particular page text out of the backup. I tried restoring the script by creating a new MySQL database and then running the script. It finished without errors.

When I do queries on the tables, however, I get nothing useful back. If I select * from page I get 0 rows. If I select * from text I get many rows, but the old_text and old_flags are all NULL. Just to double check I also tried select * from text where length(old_text)>0 and it returned 0 rows.

What happened to the actual pages?