MySQL is usually confined in /var/lib/mysql, so if you move the /etc/my.cnf and the /var/lib/mysql from the old server to the new one, you should be able to start the server normally, otherwise you should get some useful errors.
A typical error in such case is MySQL files ownership/permissions.
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:18 PM, 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.
-- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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