On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Christopher Kurtis Koeber <ckoe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to recover MySQL databases (which were properly shut down) from > an EXT4 formatted hard disk.
What happened to require the recovery? Which parts of the database server shut down properly, and which didn't? > I loaded the SystemRescueCD distro that you can > get online and when running TestDisk I can see the partitions but I cannot > recover said partitions because it tells me the structure is bad (any > options here, by the way?) What kind of partition table was it? > > With PhotoRec, I can recover parts of the MySQL Database but I cannot get > the important *.MYD files because I guess PhotoRec doesn't have the > signatures for that type of file. > > So, any options I have at this point? Probably. > > Thank you for your time. > -- :wq
