how to recover crashed db: only the db or the whole directory /var/lib/mysql

[Uwe Brauer]

Hello

I have so far tried (unsuccessfully) to recover the database
from the crashed Mac. (I am using Kubuntu 9.04)

I tried 2 tactics.

    -  shutdown the server (service mysql shutdown)
       copy the maqwiki folder into /var/lib/mysql
       restart the server. The server came up some tables
       show their content.

    -  shutdown the server
       replace the whole myslq directory which in the case
       of the Mac is somewhere in /Application/MAMP/db/mysql
       or something like this
       to /var/lib/mysql
       then the server did not come up. I looked for a log
       file, for example in /var/log, but the mysql.log is
       empty and the syslog does not show anything with
       respect  to mysql.

Any ideas

Thanks 

Uwe Brauer 



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