On 2011-03-26 18:41, John Levine wrote:
In article<4d8e1e4a.5000...@shopzeus.com>  you write:
Hi,

I have an old backup from a MySQL data directory. It was created with
MySQL version 3. If I install MySQL 4 then I get this message telling
that the table was created with a different MySQL version.
You should be able to restore the individual database directories
under mysql 4 and use ALTER TABLE to upgrade the file formats.  You'll
lose the user access stuff, but that's usually easy enough to
reconstruct.

In MySQL, each database is self-describing.  That is, for database
foo, the files in the foo/ directory are both the description of
the tables and the data in them.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/upgrading-from-3-23.html
Okay, I tried to follow the instruction. So instead of installing 4.1, I have installed 4.0. After replacing /var/db/mysql with my archived directory:

gw# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start
Starting mysql.
gw# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server status
mysql is not running.
gw#


There is nothing in /var/log/messages.

It was working with 4.1 server, but I just uninstalled that (because the upgrading faq told me to install 4.0 instead.)

So what now?

   L

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