I know this sounds silly, but a Linux backup was done without the MySQL files being dumped. My task, if I choose to accept it (Mission Impossible theme music playing) :-) is to retrieve the files which contain the MySQL database from the Linux backup and restore them into another Linux system so that the database and tables can once again be accessed by the application that uses them. When the backup was performed no transactions were being performed to the MySQL database at the time. How should I proceed to do this safely? Can I merely copy these files to a fresh Linux install with MySQL and be fine, or should something else be done? Which files and directories should and shouldn't be copied that pertain to restoring this MySQL database and tables?
Thanks! David
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