Newbie doing disaster recovery...oh my.
I'm trying to do some diasaster recovery on a machine running mySQL. I
could use a little bit of help...even if its pointing me in the right
direction only...
I can see I have some .MYD, .MYI, and .frm files that look to be the
original database files.
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From: Peter J. Milanese
To: ComCity
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: DISASTER recovery...hopefully
Should be no big deal..
Look in the mysql.server startup script..
There's a 'datadir=' line... set the path to the location of the data files.
It should
Subject: Re: DISASTER recovery...hopefully
Doing more research...found a file called my.cnf. That appears to be the
right file. It has the datadir in there. So if I just point the datadir
to
the right place it will simply wake up mySQL to the /datadir/mysql system
table and the databases
