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 at 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Marios Zindilis