Hello
This is a real nightmare. A Mac crashed, the hard disk could
be saved. Right now it can't be booted. That hard disk contained
the wiki of our department.
I don't know precisely the version of the OS (most likely Mac X
10.4), nor the version of mysql (most likely 5.3.x) and to make
things worse I did not generate a dump of the mysql data base.
I have however "access" to the database in the sense that I have
a copy of the files /var/lib/mysql/maqwiki
(maqwiki is the name of the database)
I followed the advice offered in the mysql mailing list
namely
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> service mysql stop
> cd /var/lib/mysql
> rm -rf *
> tar zxvf maqwiki.tar
> rm -rf ib_logfile*
> chown -R mysql.mysql
> service mysql start
However after having installed the mediawiki software (I
stick for the moment to 1.9.3) and trying to connect to the
database I only see empty pages.
- Could it be that the database was damaged when the hard
disk crashed?
As a matter of fact when I have a look into the
/var/lib/mysql/maqwiki
directory most of the files are very small in size with the
exception of searchindex.MYD and searchindex.MYI. I
have no idea whether this is "normal".
- I did not do the recover process correctly. Is there
any "hardcore" mysql command I could use to check the
database?
- the connection between the mediawiki conf and the
data base is broken. How can I check?
Any help is very much appreciated.
Uwe Brauer
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