Hello.
Please, start a new thread when you're asking a different question.
In my opinion, it is safer to restore an archive into the datadir
of 4.0.23 server. Then perform a dump using mysqldump utility
and finally import it to the new 5.x instance. I suggest you to
read this page before doing anything:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/upgrade.html
"Siegfried Heintze" <siegfried@stripped> wrote:
> My questions are probably addressed in the MySQL documentation somewhere.
> I've been reading the documentation on backup but I'm not sure if that is
> the right tool for this situation. Perhaps there is a better place to be
> reading?
>
> Apparently my 4.0.23 database on my notebook is corrupted as one large table
> appears to be empty. Fortunately, I had used zip to create a copy of the
> mysql/data directory on CD. I have a new V5 installation on my new desktop
> computer.
>
> I really don't care about having a copy of the data on my notebook anymore.
> What should I do?
>
> Should I restore the data directory to my notebook and create a backup
> (using the mysqldump) and then restore the backup on v5?
>
> Or should I just restore the V4.0.23 mysql/data directory that is on the CD
> directly to the v5 directory? Are the formats of the data files compatible?
>
> Or is there is there a special utility for copying from one mysql instance
> to another?
>
> I created all the tables my self using MySQL CC and I never did anything
> special like incorporate innodb (sp?).
>
> Thanks,
> Siegfried
>
>
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