From: Wm Mussatto
Date: February 8 2008 9:31pm
Subject: Re: Where are actual databases stored?
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On Fri, February 8, 2008 13:09, Paolo Amodio wrote:
>
> Il giorno 08/feb/08, alle ore 21:55, Riccardo Perotti ha scritto:
>
>> Hi all:
>>
>> Our sistem crashed and we're trying to recover our data. The disc is
>> fine but the OS is gone, so I'm trying to get at the actual mysql
>> databases document. Does anybody know where to look for them in a
>> *nix system?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Riccardo
>>
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>
>
> Usually in
>
> /usr/local/mysql/data
>
> but it'snt a standard.
> What's your distro?
>
> See you
>
> Paolo Amodio
> dixie@stripped
> www.dixienet.it
As the man said, depends on the distro: debian its
/var/lib/mysql
at least for the myisam files.

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