recovering a mysql databse?

[ahadley]

Hi,
I have recently had to set up a new server as my last was compromised, i have the old root partition mounted on the fresh machine (noexec, read) so i can get the websites back, and so i can check the old config and such but was wondering how i can retrieve my old database since i no longer have the old mysql server running?

I cant do a sqldump from the old one for obvious reasons, and so was wanting to know if mysql keeps an importable version of it i could simply grab from the old machine. (i have backups but they are a fews days out of date as when the server started to die this included the backups for some reason).

Thanks in advance,
Alex
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[j-m]

Just copy the directories and files to new datadir...

[ahadley]

lol, okay, fair enough... but what i was wondering was what i need to copy (and from where), as i dont want to copy all mysql stuff across since i am going to do a fresh install on the new server.

Thanks for replying j-m, always on hand and helpful on this forum!

p.s. i searched for 'datadir' on the old disk, but to no avail... apologies for the simpleton questions!
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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[j-m]