[Deskaheh-sysadmin] Two quick database questions

[Treesong]

Hello,

After a bit more investigation, I also noticed that it won't let me use 
the myisamchk command discussed earlier for the same reason of 
permissions. Any ideas on how to fix or get around this?

Love and Healing,

Treesong

Treesong wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thank you for the replies. They are helping but I still have follow-up 
> questions...
>
> pabs wrote:
>
>> "locate mysql" led me to this: /var/db/mysql/<database>/
>>
>>  
>>
>
> Okay, I don't feel too crazy then. I actually found this path too and 
> assumed that it was the correct one. But I couldn't access it to 
> verify what was inside of it because it was giving me a file 
> permission error.
>
> pabs wrote:
>
>> /www/dadaIMC/<site>/docs/<database>_dump.sql.gz
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>
> I found the file now -- but as John M mentioned earlier, it's only 108 
> bytes. Is there still an off-site back-up of the database from before 
> it was reduced to 108 bytes? I would hate to think that our database 
> is just lost. I should have done my own local backup of it but now is 
> not the time for coulda-woulda-shoulda's. Anyway, thanks for all of 
> the help...
>
> Love and Healing,
>
> Treesong
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