Retrieving data from an unmounted mysql database

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 07:46:55PM +0000, ijaaz-UwkSZrAjFfdkDLQDXwjzI9BPR1lH4CV8 at public.gmane.org wrote:
>Couldn't you just copy /var/lib/mysql to another machine?

No, at least not in this case - when mysql tried to start it made an
effort and then barfed.

The solution was that I still had a bootable hard drive from the dead
server (it was MB failure that killed it), and I was able to boot it on
another machine and do a dump, then pull the dump off to a USB stick and
put everything back together again.

Thanks for the help!
-- 

yours,

William

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