Steve,
Tuesday, November 05, 2002, 7:47:34 PM, you wrote:

SB> I have messed up my server just a bit, it no longer starts ;) I have 2
SB> servers one on a 98 machine for testing, and another on a 2000 box that is
SB> being set up for intranet applications at my company. I usually do changes
SB> etc on the 98 box then just stop both servers and copy the data folder from
SB> my 98 box to the 2000 box. This time when I wen't to restart the service on
SB> the 2000 box i get a message "Fails to start the service, please wait 30
SB> seconds and try again." I did and no go :(
SB> I'm new to mysql and db admin stuff so what I have been doing is probably
SB> not the best way to do this, but it has worked for me so far. 

SB> So can anyone tell me what I can do to fix this?

SB> Also by simply stopping the service on the 2000 box am I actually shutting
SB> down the server?

SB> Is there another way I should be doing this kind of thing?

SB> I am running mysqld-max-nt on the 2000 box, with innodb.

First of all you should run server in stanalone mode to see error message:
      mysqld-max-nt --standalone --console

If you want to make backup of InnoDB tables look at:
      http://www.innodb.com/ibman.html#Backing_up



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