Re: [CentOS] Mysql databases from old system?

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:

Last week I had a hard disk failure on my CentOS server. I managed to re-install CentOS on a new disk. I have the old mysql databases from /var/lib/mysql . Can I just move them to my new disk?

Any help or suggestions gratefully received.

What you are 'supposed' to do is take the backup that you make regularly with 'mysqldump' and restore it with the mysql command line program. But if you are running on the same cpu type and mysql version, moving the disk or copying the directory contents will work (along with the things already mentioned about /etc/my.cnf and selinux).