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Add a `vagrant export-dump` command to export the wiki contents
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Description

This would be a nice to have to convince people that killing and rebuilding a badly behaving vm is easier than debugging strange settings drift. Extra bonus points for vagrant rebuild to dump the wiki content, destroy the vm, create a new vm and import the wiki dump all in one command.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 3:35 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz68594.
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Bulk unassigning bugs from Ori.

Change 341269 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/vagrant] Add export-dump command

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/341269

Change 342560 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/vagrant] Add export-dump command

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/342560

Done but a bit awkward; making it non-awkward is blocked on T160388: Support revisions and logs in the same dump.

Extra bonus points for vagrant rebuild to dump the wiki content, destroy the vm, create a new vm and import the wiki dump all in one command.

Note that there is no way currently to export/import most non-revision-based content (e.g. users or OAuth consumers). In some use cases (such as switching from trusty to jessie) a rebuild command using plain DB dumps might be more appropriate.

Aklapper removed Tgr as the assignee of this task.Jun 19 2020, 4:26 PM
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Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 12:23 PM