"anonymous" <fe************@yahoo.com> skrev i en meddelelse
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I've got a disk that had the data files for my mysql server on it.
From these files can I rebuild the database? I didn't do backups or
anything like that, but I have the whole file system. What I was
looking to do was reinstall mysql and then somehow import those files
to recreate the database, is this possible?
Assume the architecture is the same (eg you didn't upgrade from windows to
*nix or to another cpu family (eg i386 to alpha)), and the mysql version is
the same, you simply install mysql, stop it, drop the datafiles in the data
directory, start mysql, and it is running the backup'ed databases.
Leif
PS: Even if you changed os or cpu family, the backups might work anyway,
I'm, sure which platforms are binary compatible.