WordPress updates the database when it upgrades, so it entirely possible that the database is profoundly changed by an upgrade.
I dump my WordPress database daily and back it up (I also use rsync to keep an updated collection of media (mostly photos) in the wp-content folder, because I hate losing or reconstructing my blogs. I don't have any insight into the issue mentioned by OP though. On Mon., Nov. 29, 2021, 13:54 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, <[email protected]> wrote: > | From: Stewart C. Russell via talk <[email protected]> > > | On 2021-11-27 18:04, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | > > | > Do you have shell access? I think you imply "yes". > | > | Yes, I do, but not to the database server. All I have for that is socket > | access and PHPMyAdmin (blecch). > > Ahh. Kind of "no". > > | > Does "fix it" mean "changed the raw data" or mangle the data somewhere > | > downstream of the disk files? > | > | "fix it" meant "broke it". > > I quoted "fix it" because I understood that. > > | The MySQL DB tables seem to have been quietly > | reprocessed from one encoding to another. > > That seems (1) odd and (2) rude. > > Is there a chance that the problem is actually in presenting the data > (due to some incorrect setting of a locale somewhere)? > > Can you ask you supplier just what happened, why, and if they can > reverse it for you? > > There is a chance that the transformation was bijective (or at least > injective) and thus reversible. > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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