Thread:Project:Support desk/How to restore a wiki without a backup?/reply (8)

No prob! Also, I should mention that since I was going from an older version of MediaWiki to a newer one, I had to follow the steps in the article, and then run the update script.

And I actually ran into an issue: it worked, but only once. So I found that I needed to:


 * 1) Follow the steps in the article and run the update script
 * 2) Export my database in phpMyAdmin
 * 3) Stop MySQL and Apache
 * 4) Delete the data folder located in the mysql folder
 * 5) Replace it with the previous data folder, from before I had made any changes mentioned in the article (luckily I had saved a copy of the folder after each change I made to it)
 * 6) Restart MySQL and Apache
 * 7) Create a database for the wiki in phpMyAdmin
 * 8) Import the recovered tables into the new database

And so far my recovered wiki has been running perfectly for the past few days.