>>>>> On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:02:09 -0400, George Larson >>>>> <george.g.lar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We do nightly backups at work just by taring the mysql directory. In > my environment, that is /var/lib/mysql. > Like this: > service mysql stop > cd /var/lib/mysql > rm -rf * > tar zxvf file.tar > rm -rf ib_logfile* > chown -R mysql.mysql > service mysql start I have followed these steps and it seems not to work. I have re installed the mediawiki software and then I tried to open the corresponding wikipage, but only see empty pages. There are several reasons for this: - when the hard disk crashed the database was damaged, 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. I will ask in the mediawiki page about this. Any advice and help is very much appreciated. Uwe Brauer -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org