Does "repair table" work in this case?

--- "Logan, David (SST - Adelaide)"
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> Hi Vicki,
> 
> If you have a backup of the .MYD file, you should be
> able to copy this
> over the existing one and run myisamchk -r to
> rebuild the index.
> 
> Regards
> 
> David Logan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vicki Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Thursday, 20 January 2005 8:49 AM
> To: Dathan Pattishall; mysql@lists.mysql.com
> Subject: RE: I seem to have lost a table somehow :-(
> 
> At 3:21 PM -0800 1/18/05, Dathan Pattishall wrote:
> >Somehow your table was zero'ed out, i.e. TRUNCATE /
> DROP-CREATE.
> >
> >MYD - data of the table
> >MYI - index of the table
> >Frm - TABLE definition
> >
> >I hope you have a backup.
> 
> Ewwch.
> I may have a backup. I definitely have the data.
> Unfortunately, there
> doesn't
> seem to be an "easy" way to put the data back into
> the db.
> 
> On the other hand, it's not my weblog, it's seen
> very little activity
> over
> its lifetime, the last entry was September and the
> owner is temporarily
> "off
> the Internet". So it couldn't have happened to a
> less important
> database.
> 
> Still. I wonder what crashed.
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