J Apple wrote:
Thanks for the message...
Some even more basic stuff.
Short answer: if you can't understand the README you probably won't be able to
make it work.
iv'e tried running MWdumper on several machines
with
win XP and Mac OS X. Nothing happens when I double
click the executable .jar file. I've tried instaling
JRE 1.5, but still can't get the file to run... on
some machines I see a couple folders with .class files
in them, but don't know what to do with those. On
others I see an executable .jar file.
I see that MWdumper is a command line interface, BUT,
where would I type the commands in.
You'll need some basic command-line computer literacy to operate the current
version of MWDumper. This means knowing how to start a command-line terminal on
your operating system, how to type commands and run them, etc.
Some sample command lines with parameters are in the README; again if you have
difficulty understanding this documentation, you probably will have trouble
operating it. That's not an insult; it's just a command-line program with lots
of scary options, which is inherently a bit intimidating because it's designed
to do several somewhat complicated things.
What exactly does using MWdumper accomplish? does
MWdumper simply create an SQl file from the XML dump??
OR does it connect my local machine to my webhost so I
can import the DB file?
For SQL output, MWDumper can either produce a text file full of SQL statements,
or it can make a direct connection to a MySQL server (under ideal conditions)
and send commands directly there. This of course requires being able to contact
the server; if it's remote this may be difficult (eg requiring a SSH tunnel).
IF it doesn't connect to my webhost, then how
would I
upload this massive DB into mySQl, since phpmyAdmin
has a limit on file size that is much smaller than the
DB size?
If you have no other direct access to your MySQL server than phpMyAdmin, you
probably are not in a good position to work with this kind of large data dump.
Incidentally, I've uploaded a new version of mwdumper.jar. This doesn't yet
include a GUI frontend, but does:
* bundle the Xerces XML library so it works on Java 1.4
* bundle the MySQL connector, so it _might_ work to connect to a database
directly without fetching a separate driver jar (not tested)
* should run through our dumps on the default heap size
http://download.wikimedia.org/tools/mwdumper.jar
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)