Forum:What is a Database Dump?

Title says it all, pretty much. It sounds simple, but what are the details? Like how does it work?

ROADS! Roads! (Don't forget it!) 21:47, August 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * A database dump takes the data on a wiki and allows it to be imported into another mediawiki installation.--


 * It's a copy of the entire wiki in XML. It can be used to take whole wikis and move them, for example, when Wowpedia forked from WoWWiki, they took a database dump.


 * So then what specifically do you do with the XML copy.


 * ROADS! Roads! (Don't forget it!) 21:54, August 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * If I'm correct, files are not included in a dump, or there was a problem with the version of a file. - 21:57, August 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * Once you have the XML copy, you import it into another mediawiki installation.--