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.mysql

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 mwmcm...@mnsi.net wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 18:02 -0400, George Larson wrote: Good luck! G While this sounds like an idea, does anyone know