On Thursday 06 October 2005 12:18, Ian Stoner wrote: > I recently had some really ugly hardware failure on a desktop I've > had for years. I had backups of most everything important except > for a mysql database that I'd really hate to lose. > > Although I haven't done a mysql-dump in at least a year, I have > very recently burned /var/lib/mysql onto a CD. So I have the > following files backed up from /var/lib/mysql: > > amarok debian-5.0.flag ibdata1 murdelized > test blog [redacted].dnsalias.org.err ib_logfile0 murdevel > cds ib_arch_log_0000000000 ib_logfile1 mysql > > Is it possible to use these files to restore my old databases to my > new system? I tried just copying them to /var/log/mysql and that > didn't work. > > Thanks for your help, > > Ian > > -- > Ian Stoner > Philosophy Department > University of Minnesota > Shouldn't they go to /var/db/mysql? -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel