On 3/10/05 10:03 AM, "Adam Maloney" <adam at whee.org> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Tim Wilson wrote: > >> I'm still unable to restart mysqld on my server that crashed. I'm afraid >> that I won't be able to dump the current contents of the database so I can >> reload it. I do have the contents of /var/lib/mysql which appears to be the >> raw mysql tables. Is it possible to copy these files, reinstall the system, >> put those files back, and get a working MySQL system? > > Yes, but also take a look at mysqlhotcopy - I know it can take backups > with the server down. The mysqlhotcopy appears to require a live server. I don't see any command line switches to change that. Any other ideas? Copying the raw files isn't a terrible option since that appears to be a workable strategy. -Tim -- Tim Wilson Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA Educational technology guy, Linux and OS X fan, Grad. student, Daddy mailto: wilson at visi.com aim: tis270 blog: http://technosavvy.org/