Thread:Project:Support desk/Easy way to upgrade from version 1.8 to 2.1?/reply (17)

I am unsure what you want me to do:
 * Remove the (upgraded) database. (Btw.: It looks like update.php now finishes successfully!!! But(!) I fear you might have broken the DB with the importDump.php script. Do not use it.)
 * Replace it with a backup.

Backup? I have only a backup from the old mediawiki. I used importDump.php to import it. Is that the one you want me to use? If I don't use importDump.php, how do I get the data from the old mediawiki database into the new one?


 * Before running update.php again, check for the tables "pages" and "text" being present. They must contain some rows: "page" one for each page (in the sum not one row, but many rows), "text" basically one for each revision (read: very many).

How do I do that?