Re: copy DB data from FreeBSD to Redhat9.0

[Gleb Paharenko]

Hello.

> After finished copied the data over to Redhat, MySQL4.1 can't start. The

What is in the error log?

> I don't want to rebuild the entire database from scratch in Redhat

Do you mean that you don't want to use mysqldump? But usually it is
a preferred way.


sam wun <sam.wun@stripped> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just fresh install mysql4.1 in Redhat9.0.
> I have another MySQL5.0 installed in FreeBSD5.3, and just tried to copy 
> all data in /var/db/mysql/ from FreeBSD5.3 to /var/db/mysql/data/ in 
> Redhat9.0.
> After finished copied the data over to Redhat, MySQL4.1 can't start. The 
> DB data in MySQL5.0 in the FreeBSD box has database and tables with indexes.
> I don't want to rebuild the entire database from scratch in Redhat, how 
> can I "transfer" all db files from FreeBSD to Redhat and in another 
> version of MySQL?
> 
> Thanks
> Sam
> 
> 
> 


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