Required: Yes; this section is mandatory
Scope: UNITE needs to know how
to connect to your MySQL database so that it can restore the
database(s) dumped during backup time. The databaseInfo
section does exactly that. It takes one <database>
section per database to restore.
Each <database> section tag has a
name attribute which corresponds to the base name of the
database SQL dump file. For the main database of your site the value
of the name attribute needs to always be site:
<database name="site"> <!-- Database options go here --> </database>
The extra databases are dumped using short UUID's as their base
name which typically look like
ABCD123-databasename.sql. In this case, the name
attribute needs to be the base name of the dump file, i.e.
ABCD123-databasename in this example.
The best way to figure out which database is dumped under which
name is to take a look at the databases.ini file in the
installation/sql directory inside the archive. To
do that, simply take one backup of the site and extract it using
Kickstart on a secondary server or your computer, without clicking on
the Run the Installer button. Then, navigate to the extracted
installation/sql directory and open the
databases.json file in your text editor. Each top
level key is the base name of a dump file. You can use that as your
“cheat sheet” when creating the <database> sections
of the <databaseInfo> tag for UNiTE.
Each <database> tag can contain the tags you
see in the database options
reference.