Hi Aaron! My answers are below.

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Aaron Schulz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do you want the files or not?
>
> The first post sounds like you don't, in that case you'd need to truncate
> the image/oldimage/archive tables. This will remove all registration of the
> files. Clearing memcached (or whatever cache you use) might be needed to.
Can I just use this SQL?
TRUNCATE TABLE image;
TRUNCATE TABLE oldimage;
TRUNCATE TABLE archive;

Is it safe to do, wouldn't it be a problem with referential integrity
and broken references?

> You can copy the files over with copyFileBackend.php from the old backend to
> the new one. The "src" backend would be the default upload backend name
> (just dump $wgFileBackends in eval.php to find it) unless you configured it
> otherwise and the "dst" backend would have to be added to $wgFileBackends
> and point to the new server somehow (such as via NFS or removable media).
Thanks, didn't know about that!
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