From: Martijn Tonies
Date: September 26 2007 2:07pm
Subject: Re: Ouch! ibdata files deleted. Why no catastrophe?
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> Hi Baron,
> If the database is huge, the restoring from mysqldump would take lot of
> time.
> Is there any other alternative.

Well, not deleting the InnoDB files would be a good start.

The files were deleted, what do you expect?? Just continue running and
hoping no-one finds out?

Re-creating them sure sounds the safest option to me!

Martijn Tonies
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