Uwe Brauer wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:02:09 -0400, George Larson
> <george.g.larson@stripped> wrote:
>
> > We do nightly backups at work just by taring the mysql directory. In
> > my environment, that is /var/lib/mysql.
>
> > Like this:
>
> > service mysql stop
> > cd /var/lib/mysql
> > rm -rf *
> > tar zxvf file.tar
> > rm -rf ib_logfile*
> > chown -R mysql.mysql
> > service mysql start
>
> > Something similar might work for you. Somebody with more MySQL
> > expertise than me can probably help you customize the process to your
> > environment.
>
> Ok thanks. What I am afraid of is that in on of these OS,
> their might be some other configuration files, which might
> be located apart from the main directory say in /etc and
> then I should copy them as well.
>
> Would it be necessary in Linux to generate the db and its
> users first?
>
> Uwe Brauer
>
The only one I know of, for my environment, is /etc/my.cnf. I believe
that it can be located elsewhere but you could just use 'find' to find
it. I've broken my dev. MySQL many, many times and that's the only file
I know about outside of my data directory. :)
I don't have any good ideas about discerning precisely what version of
MySQL was running, though.
