Manual:moveToExternal.php

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.5

MediaWiki file: moveToExternal.php
Location:	maintenance/storage/
Source code:	master • 1.43.1 • 1.42.6 • 1.39.12
Classes:	Find code • Find documentation

Details

moveToExternal.php file is a maintenance script to move revision's text to external storage.

You have to set up the $wgExternalStores and $wgExternalServers configuration before running the script. See Manual:External Storage for more details.

Options/Arguments

Option/Argument	Description	Required?
type	Type of external storage	Required
location	Location in external storage	Required
-s	Starting ID of revision	Optional
-e	Ending ID of revision	Optional

Usage

php maintenance/run.php storage/moveToExternal type location [ -s | -e ]

Terminal

$ php maintenance/run.php storage/moveToExternal DB demoCluster

Moving text rows from 1 to 675 to external storage
oldid=1, moved=1

In MediaWiki version 1.39.12 and earlier, you must invoke maintenance scripts using php maintenance/scriptName.php instead of php maintenance/run.php scriptName.

See also

• External Storage
• $wgExternalStores
• $wgExternalServers