---
name: "wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date"
section: "1p"
platform: "linux"
package: "libwiki-toolkit-perl"
version: "0.86-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date"
---

# wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date(1p)

Revert the state of a Wiki::Toolkit instance to an earlier point in time.

## NAME

wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date - Revert the state of a Wiki::Toolkit instance to an earlier point in time.

## SYNOPSIS

```
  # Removes any changes made to a Wiki::Toolkit instance since a given date
  #  (and optionally time), restoring it to the state at that point.
  wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date --type postgres
           --name mywiki \
           --user wiki  \
           --pass wiki \
           --host 'db.example.com' \
           --port 1234 \
           --date 2007-01-05 \
           --time 11:23:21
```

## DESCRIPTION

Takes three mandatory arguments:

- type

  The database type.  Should be one of 'postgres', 'mysql' and 'sqlite'.

- name

  The database name.

- date

  The date to revert the state back to, in the format YYYY-MM-DD

five optional arguments:

- time

  The time (on the specified date) to revert the state back to, in the format hh:mm:ss. If not specified, will use midnight.

- user

  The user that connects to the database. It must have permission to create and drop tables in the database.

- pass

  The user's database password.

- host

  The hostname of the machine the database server is running on (omit for local databases).

- port

  The port number that the database server is expecting connections to.

## AUTHOR

Nick Burch

## COPYRIGHT

```
     Copyright (C) 2006 Nick Burch.  All Rights Reserved.
```

This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

## SEE ALSO

Wiki::Toolkit