Re: hard disk crash: how to discover the db?

2010-09-10 Thread Mike McMullin
On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 15:57 +0200, Uwe Brauer wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:43:39 -0400, Mike McMullin > >>>>> wrote: > >> On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 18:02 -0400, George Larson wrote: >>> >>> Good luck! >&g

Re: hard disk crash: how to discover the db?

2010-09-10 Thread Mike McMullin
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 18:02 -0400, George Larson 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.