From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 17:27:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E273E37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:27:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mordrede.visionsix.com (mordrede.visionsix.com [65.202.119.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21E6643F93 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:27:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@visionsix.com) Received: from vsis169 (unverified [65.202.119.169]) by mordrede.visionsix.com for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:27:41 -0500 Message-ID: <00b601c309f8$4ca7a360$a977ca41@vsis169> From: "Lewis Watson" To: References: <3.0.5.32.20030423191154.014e8a60@pop.blacksburg.net> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:27:33 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: Re: disaster recovery after rootkit -> MySQL and user accounts X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 00:27:46 -0000 > >Hi Dave, > >I moved from RH Linux to FreeBSD and it seems that I just shut down MySQL > >tar'd the MySQL database directory and untarred on the new FreeBSD server. > >Had no problem with the user table or anything of the sort. While this > >doesn't cover everything it perhaps will help on the MySQL aspect of > >things. > > I believe this will work if the versions of MySQL are the same or perhaps > close, but may not work with different versions of MySQL the further > the versions are apart the less likely it is to work. MySQL of course > recommends a MySQLdump followed by a restore but that is probably > not feasible in this case. > > Lyle Evans > lyle@rackears.com > http://www.rackears.com I really wished I would have mentioned this :-). I think there might have been a few releases between the two but not many... I stayed on the 3.xx.xx track during this move. Since then I upgraded to 4.xx and have been very happy but I would keep the versions as close as possible for this move... Good point!! Lewis