MySQL database recovery

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 15:22 +0100, Oliver Marshall wrote: 
> Hi chaps,
> 
>  
> 
> We have a machine from which someone has just deleted a MySQL
> database. The MySQL databases weren’t being backed up unfortunately. 

I believe that if the file is manually deleted, it's a goner. Before you
reboot that machine I guess you could hunt for some sort of backup
in /tmp ? It's a thought and I hope someone has a definitive answer for
you, Ric


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