[gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

[C. Beamer]

Hi all,

I just upgraded MySQL using the instructions on the Gentoo website.  For
the most part, everything went fine and now everything works, but I had
to make a couple of adjustments.  My question now is if there is a
proper way to do what I did as a workaround.

In September, when I wiped Fedora Core off my main system and installed
Gentoo, I had a MySQL database that I used for one reason and one reason
only.  To get my database files from the FC4 system to Gentoo, I just
copied them to a ZIP drive.  When I installed MySQL, in /var/lib/mysql/
I created a directory with the name of my database and copied my
database related files into that directory.  Then I set up the users
allowed to access to the database.  This worked fine and is the
workaround that I had to do today after upgrading MySQL.

The instructions on the Gentoo website for upgrading gave a step by step
to create a backup of my database.  However, when I went to restore the
database after the upgrade, the restore didn't work.  I'm thinking that
it was because of the way I got my database files into MySQL when I
initially installed MySQL under Gentoo.

Is there a way to rectify this so that the backup will work for future
upgrades?

Regards,

Colleen
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