<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">disaster reverted - I went crazy, backed up my new /var/lib/mysql directory, nuked it, restored the old one over the top of it, restarted mysqld, did the mysqldump thing for mythconverg, and then restored /var/lib/mysql<div><br></div><div>So, all good now...!</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 15/11/2009, at 1:50 PM, Damian Haslam wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 15/11/2009, at 1:42 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Damian Haslam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:damian@dickson.st">damian@dickson.st</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; ">
Had a bit of a mishap yesterday, but I managed to save /var/lib/mysql<br>
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Anyone got any hints on how I can go about restoring mysql on a fresh ubuntu 9.10 install so I don't lose all my recordings?<br></blockquote><div><br>Maybe this can help you:<br><br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Database_Restore">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Database_Restore</a><br>
</div></div><br>Kevin</blockquote><br></div><div>Thanks Kevin,</div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, I wasn't able to run a mysqldump before "the incident", and only managed to save the files from /var/lib/mysql, so that page isn't of much use I'm sad to say :(</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>