Depends on the distro, also which version of the distro. Damn FHS is always changing... -Bryan On 6 Oct 2005, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Thursday 06 October 2005 12:18, Ian Stoner wrote: > > I recently had some really ugly hardware failure on a desktop I've > > had for years. I had backups of most everything important except > > for a mysql database that I'd really hate to lose. > > > > Although I haven't done a mysql-dump in at least a year, I have > > very recently burned /var/lib/mysql onto a CD. So I have the > > following files backed up from /var/lib/mysql: > > > > amarok debian-5.0.flag ibdata1 murdelized > > test blog [redacted].dnsalias.org.err ib_logfile0 murdevel > > cds ib_arch_log_0000000000 ib_logfile1 mysql > > > > Is it possible to use these files to restore my old databases to my > > new system? I tried just copying them to /var/log/mysql and that > > didn't work. > > > > Thanks for your help, > > > > Ian > > > > -- > > Ian Stoner > > Philosophy Department > > University of Minnesota > > > > Shouldn't they go to /var/db/mysql? > > -- > Thanks, > > Josh Paetzel > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >