Don't delete your Drupal variables table

By goobermaster
June 12, 2007 - 12:25pm.

Mon Deiu, what a nightmare. Drupal quit working, gallery quit working, lots of settings that used to be there — now mysteriously gone. I had to grab my old table from the old site and rebuild the damn thing from scratch. Then re-install gallery and reset all of the Drupal 5.2 setting customizations that were made.

Damn phpMyAdmin. They really ought to add a “are you sure?” button to the delete buttons. That’s twice I’ve eliminated tables inadvertently without meaning to. Thank Jebus for backups.

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