Thread:Project:Support desk/Recover wiki from unbootable system?/reply

Hi!

You can easily copy over the files of the installation.

For the database, it would be better, if you had a DB dump. So if you have a current dump, use that one! If you do not have one, you can also copy the files from the mysql/data directory to the new server. However, you might still have to do additional steps in order to make the DB run in the new server. Which files you actually have to restore depends on the table engine, which is used for the different tables. More information on that topic are e.g. available here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/484750/restoring-mysql-database-from-physical-files