It's not an answer to your problem but you might want to look at getting the free Navicat. It's a great GUI MySQL manager that will keep you from having to deal with CLI.
> I'm doing a similar backup and restore. But the old machine is a 2 year > old toaster on cnt4.4. the new machine is fresh install with cnt5.1. > I got everything to move over fine, except the mysql data base I think > the old server has a different version of mysql. I'm experimenting with > my sql dump and a restore. Does anyone have any advice as to the best > way to move the database manually? > > I can log in from both machines with > mysql -u vpopmail -pqwerty vpopmail (the password is changed here for > security) but when doing a > show tables; I get no output on the new server. > > and the full list on the old one. Any advice on doing a manual mysql > backup restore would be appreciated. > > Oh and thanks to everyone. I found so much useful information in the > mailing list archive. I could never have never got this far with out > it. > > Dan > > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 17:44 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: >> dnk wrote: >> > Hey there, >> > >> > I was going through a test run today trying out the qtp-backup and >> qtp-restore. >> > >> > I made sure both machines had the same version of qtp. >> > >> > One was a toaster that has been running for some months and is now >> centos 4.6. >> > The new one is a brand spanking new centos 5.1 install, with a blank >> > set of domains. >> > >> > SO for sh**s and giggles I wanted to see if i could restore back onto >> > the new toaster. >> > >> > All my data appears to be there. The vqadmin reports back all of the >> > users and passwords. As does the vpopmail bin tools. >> > >> > Now when I attempt to log into webmail, I get the dreaded "ERROR: >> > Connection dropped by IMAP server." error (google returns many many >> > reasons and apparent solutions - none of which have yet worked for me >> > thus far). When I attempt to login to the qmailadmin, I get an >> > "invalid password" error. >> > >> > I double checked and I have the ports listening (so it seems). >> > >> > Here is the output of netstats -pant: >> > >> > # netstat -pant >> > Active Internet connections (servers and established) >> > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address >> > State PID/Program name >> > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:993 0.0.0.0:* >> > LISTEN 16192/tcpserver >> > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:995 0.0.0.0:* >> > LISTEN 16154/tcpserver >> > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3306 0.0.0.0:* >> > LISTEN 2603/mysqld >> > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:587 0.0.0.0:* >> > LISTEN 16151/tcpserver >> > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:110 0.0.0.0:* >> > LISTEN 16180/tcpserver >> > tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:783 0.0.0.0:* >> > LISTEN 16133/perl >> > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:* >> > LISTEN 16230/tcpserver >> > tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* >> > LISTEN 30042/named >> > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* >> > LISTEN 16221/tcpserver >> > tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:953 0.0.0.0:* >> > LISTEN 30042/named >> > tcp 0 0 :::80 :::* >> > LISTEN 16417/httpd >> > tcp 0 0 ::1:53 :::* >> > LISTEN 30042/named >> > tcp 0 0 :::22 :::* >> > LISTEN 2416/sshd >> > tcp 0 0 ::1:953 :::* >> > LISTEN 30042/named >> > tcp 0 0 :::443 :::* >> > LISTEN 16417/httpd >> > tcp 0 1728 ::ffff:my.remote.ip.addy:22 >> > ::ffff:my.office.ip.addy:51994 ESTABLISHED 15897/0 >> > >> > Now could this simply be due to the fact that the OS versions are >> > different? Is this a lost cause? >> > >> > DNK >> > >> >> I highly doubt it (but anything's possible), and no. >> >> I wouldn't trust vqadmin at all, but some folks say it's ok for looking >> things up. >> >> My first guess would be MySQL grants. Did you run the mysqladmin >> commands in >> the cnt50-svcs.sh script? I would expect so since you can retrieve >> information with /home/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo. Is the password there the >> same as what's in /home/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql ? >> >> (Hey, it's just a guess) >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com > For additional commands, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-h...@qmailtoaster.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com For additional commands, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-h...@qmailtoaster.com
