Marios Zindilis wrote: > 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. > 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. > Marios, please don't top post. And speaking of ownership/permissions... watch out for selinux contexts. You may want to touch /.autorelabel and reboot, and walk away for a while.... mark mark