Define "Did not work?"
As long as the my.cnf are the same, and mysql was NOT running when you
copied the files. it should work.
Unless the files are bad.
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Magnus Ekhall <koma@stripped> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to do a rather odd replication of a mysql database and need
> some hints.
>
> An old server of mine died horribly during a recent power outage.
> It had a mysql 4.1 server. The hardware has just given up, but I have
> managed to get all files from the harddrive.
>
> Since the server won't boot I cannot run mysqldump.
>
> I then tried just moving the database files
> from /var/lib/mysql/thedatabas onto a fresh install of mysql (in Ubuntu
> 10.10, so version 5.x), but that did not work.
>
> Can anyone suggest a way to get a dump of my database somehow?
>
> I'm going to set up a new server running a recent version of mysql, so
> the equivalent of mysqldump is ideal.
>
> Any ideas at all?
>
> Regards,
> Magnus
>
>
>
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