Correct ownership of the files helps a lot. duh.
I'll do some more checking into the right way to back up this database after
I catch a few hours sleep. I just know that rsync is not the best way....
> Running mysql 3.23.24 beta on a RH6.2 box...
>
> Is there any way at all to salvage tables that have been backed up using
> just rsync (straight copy). The original database died, and the guy that
set
> up the backups just used rsync to do all the backups and didn't do
anything
> special for the database.
>
> I know zilch about mysql, but have been trying to recover this for an hour
> now and am getting nowhere... from what I can tell, it's not possible to
> salvage the data (or at least part of it)? MySQL doesn't think there are
any
> fields in any of the "restored" tables..
>
> If there's a miracle worker out there, I would appreciate an
assist..there's
> a *ton* of work in this database....
>
> Thanks...
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