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On 10/30/05, C. Beamer <cbeamer@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I just upgraded MySQL using the instructions on the Gentoo website. For |
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> the most part, everything went fine and now everything works, but I had |
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> to make a couple of adjustments. My question now is if there is a |
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> proper way to do what I did as a workaround. |
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> In September, when I wiped Fedora Core off my main system and installed |
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> Gentoo, I had a MySQL database that I used for one reason and one reason |
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> only. To get my database files from the FC4 system to Gentoo, I just |
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> copied them to a ZIP drive. When I installed MySQL, in /var/lib/mysql/ |
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> I created a directory with the name of my database and copied my |
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> database related files into that directory. Then I set up the users |
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> allowed to access to the database. This worked fine and is the |
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> workaround that I had to do today after upgrading MySQL. |
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> The instructions on the Gentoo website for upgrading gave a step by step |
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> to create a backup of my database. However, when I went to restore the |
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> database after the upgrade, the restore didn't work. I'm thinking that |
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> it was because of the way I got my database files into MySQL when I |
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> initially installed MySQL under Gentoo. |
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> Is there a way to rectify this so that the backup will work for future |
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> upgrades? |
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What was the error message, if it was about the key length exceeding |
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1000, then you hit a known bug. |
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-- Joe |
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There are 3 kinds of people in the world: |
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Those who can count, and those who can't. |
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