Am 15.11.2013 um 16:55 schrieb Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayle...@eircom.net> wrote: >> Last week I had a hard disk failure on my CentOS server. >> I managed to re-install CentOS on a new disk. >> I have the old mysql databases from /var/lib/mysql . >> Can I just move them to my new disk? >> >> Any help or suggestions gratefully received. > > What you are 'supposed' to do is take the backup that you make > regularly with 'mysqldump' and restore it with the mysql command line > program. But if you are running on the same cpu type and mysql > version, moving the disk or copying the directory contents will work > (along with the things already mentioned about /etc/my.cnf and > selinux).
provided that the old system had shutdown the mysql process regularly. Means, the integrity of /var/lib/mysql is warranted. -- LF _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
