Can’t Restore Backup

  • mlanger

    (@mlanger)


    19 years ago

    I used the WordPress Database Backup plugin with wp-cron to back up my blogs nightly and e-mail them to me. Good thing I did. My hard disk crashed and I had to rebuild both blogs, each of which have 300+ entries.

    One rebuild went off without a hitch. I used MySQL Administrator to restore the backup file.

    But the other rebuild isn’t working. MySQL Administrator gives me the following error: “Error Loading Backup File.” I get a glimpse of a progress bar right before the message; it seems to move about 1/10-1/6 of the way through the file.

    Opened the file with a text editor, no problem. The file is large — 1.8 MB. I did not go through the whole thing because I don’t know what I’m looking for. I’m new to MySQL.

    Any suggestions? I’m using a Mac, so there are limits to the GUI tools available to me. I can type commands into the Mac’s Terminal application, right on the server, but I have no clue what to type.

    Help?

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