Hi.
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 05:27:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I recently lost my main drive (linux), but I was mirroring nightly the
> contents of all my directories to another drive using mirrordir.
>
> I'm a bit of a mysql newbie...can anyone tell me (first) where in the
> directory structure of linux mysql databases usually put themselves by
> default.
That depends on the installation. /var/lib/mysql is a common place.
If you know one of your database names, e.g. "midget", you can search
for it with
find /path/to/mirrordrive -type d -name "midget"
> and (second) if I can somehow copy or restore the data on a new
> box?
Simply copy it over with "cp -a" (as root). Then you should do first a
check of the tables (with CHECK TABLE or the command (my-)isamchk), to
be sure that the back-up is consistent.
Bye,
Benjamin.
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