-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08.02.2012 12:02, Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Christopher Kurtis Koeber > <ckoe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to recover MySQL databases (which were properly shut >> down) from an EXT4 formatted hard disk. > > What happened to require the recovery? Which parts of the database > server shut down properly, and which didn't? > >> I loaded the SystemRescueCD distro that you can get online and >> when running TestDisk I can see the partitions but I cannot >> recover said partitions because it tells me the structure is bad >> (any options here, by the way?) > > What kind of partition table was it? > >> >> With PhotoRec, I can recover parts of the MySQL Database but I >> cannot get the important *.MYD files because I guess PhotoRec >> doesn't have the signatures for that type of file. >> >> So, any options I have at this point? > > Probably. > >> >> Thank you for your time. >> >
You could try Autopsy & sleuthkit[1]. Before you do anything to the drive it would be wise to copy it via dd so that no accidental write makes anythoing worse... [1] http://www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy/desc.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPMl2WAAoJEJwwOFaNFkYcOx8IALYF9e7/HkxpZtbMzpZUkb7x UNMDkTcZdcQi0mlJqL6Al97nHpgPkm2tZyInFgNdWVEu1qIafxtLEcIrbzFgP4yX iuxsFRFHIY10NcU/3PcHvgtUBdyOoHQqztzwxW1nJ8zpqqyc9U3p/xAam72kHrb0 90ip0sQnj+wdxnpzLbBdws4AMUYV3IUAo0vaOOMCdqPKQL7NE+HUCMUBgfXXCYX4 fVBukukMBKnKgECKI7BlZRvfuINJ19d3RG75bIzm3xIspwfIy3OxvO64nSco/Dkl yswGa/258cNC/Q6RaypDaWBRVh1R928/2qSJl6hOaxa/UQDXen1SKLJ46VZ8ZmE= =vIdQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
