On March 13, 2013, Rich Pieri wrote: >I'm saying that you can't load the database file into MySQL on a >different architecture.
Yep. The output of mysqldump, however, is merely a generated list of INSERT statements to recreate the database contents. These dumps do seem pretty portable in my experience, and that's what I was referring to by "dump and restore the database." >I got lucky in that a working, nearly identical computer was retired >shortly afterwards and I was able to recover that data. Glad to hear it. If you're concerned about not being able to find a compatible computer, maybe running your wiki in a VM would avoid the issue? -- Dan Barrett dbarr...@blazemonger.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
