i asked about this once upon a time, and might need a little more help here. a friend's mysql hosting provider lost an entire DB, but has managed to recover and hand over the "ibdata1" file (or at least some portion of it).
when my friend popped into mysql, what he's seeing is that some of the tables appear to be back, but others generate a "does not exist" diagnostic. by way of trying to help last time, i literally copied the underlying mysql files onto my linux system, then fired up mysql to see what magically appeared, but that was before i even had the ibdata1 file so i wasn't surprised to get very little in the way of recovered data. now, though, with this ibdata1 file, i can try that again -- fire up a new linux box, and manually install the files under /var/lib/mysql. i'm guessing i'll see much of what he's seeing. i just want to verify that, if that's all i have access to and some of the tables still appear to be missing, there's not much i can do. or is there? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org