[Deskaheh-sysadmin] Two quick database questions

[pabs]

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 21:58 -0500, Treesong wrote:

> First of all, where are the databases located? I want to run the 
> myisamchk command that someone suggested, but that command requires the 
> path info, and I don't have it and don't know where to find it.

"locate mysql" led me to this: /var/db/mysql/<database>/

> Also, how can I access the database dumps/backups? Someone else at our 
> IMC has set up a test server and we want to transfer our data to the 
> test server to see if it will be a viable option for local hosting of 
> our site.

/www/dadaIMC/<site>/docs/<database>_dump.sql.gz

-- 
bye,
pabs

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