Hi everyone.
I used to run mysql on a local server here, which has some databases
which are very important to me on it. The server was running mysql
on Arch Linux, but unfortunatly this crashed, I was not able to
rebuild the operating system but I was able to recover the raw
database files off of the hard disk. Is there a way of importing
these to my MySQL 3.2 server? (I beleive that Arch Linux was running
5.0). I have tried simply placing them in the mysql database folder
but I get errors such as "Incorrect information in file:
'./my0007/ee_pm.frm..." when I try and perform any operations in
PhpMyAdmin.
Any help would be appreciated as I do not want to have to rebuilt
the databases from scratch/
Cheers
Chris
Chris, you may be in luck. MySQL "MyISAM" table files are binary
compatible across platforms. That is to say that database table
files from Arch Linux will work fine on Mac, Solaris, Windows, etc.,
without modification. I'm not as familiar with InnoDB tablespaces
but they may work as well. Definitely try this with a copy of your
files, not the originals.
In all likelihood you need to update to at least the same version of
the server software you were running on the now-crashed server. In
other words, if you update to 5.0.x and place the table files in the
proper path, you should be OK.
MySQL 3.2 is a very old version and likely simply isn't compatible
with tables created in 5.0. If the situation were reversed (you had
a 3.2 server that crashed and you wanted to bring the tables into
5.0) that might work fine.
Hope this helps,
Dan
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