Hi Baron,
If the database is huge, the restoring from mysqldump would take lot of
time.
Is there any other alternative.
egards
anandkl
On 9/26/07, Baron Schwartz <baron@stripped> wrote:
>
> >> How do I recover them, and do you think this is wise? At this point, I
> >> still think it might be a better idea to do a complete reinstall /
> >> restore / transaction log run.
>
> There's no need to reinstall :-) It's not MS Windows, it's just InnoDB.
> As others have said, I'd try to do a global LOCK TABLES (I wouldn't do
> a FLUSH TABLES because I'm not sure how missing files might be handled
> -- it could crash) and a full dump. Then just shut down MySQL and
> delete *all* the InnoDB files and let it initialize with fresh files on
> restart, and import. You should be fine. But I'd do it ASAP because in
> the meantime you could have a crash.
>
> Baron
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