Any Redhat 4.0 ES Experts On here?

One of our webservers has just died and won't boot into it's OS.

I have managed to get most of the files and sites running from another server, but I need to try and recover the files for a MySQL 5 db and try to get them running on another machine.

I think the files I need are:

idbdata1
ib_logfile0
ib_logfile1

...and I think they reside in/var/lib/mysql

Just don't have a Danny on how I can get them off of the old box.

[jamesterror]

Hi,

Few Q's,

Do you have access to a KVM switch? Or something of the sort, or is server on site?

I run a hosting company and had a crash the other day which required a format, I got my provider to boot it with a difference Kernel and recover the entire system.

I presume your running Apache?

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by krhall

One of our webservers has just died and won't boot into it's OS.

I have managed to get most of the files and sites running from another server, but I need to try and recover the files for a MySQL 5 db and try to get them running on another machine.

I think the files I need are:

idbdata1
ib_logfile0
ib_logfile1

...and I think they reside in/var/lib/mysql

Just don't have a Danny on how I can get them off of the old box.

Download an Ubuntu ISO - as well as being installers they are also LIVE systems that run from CD

Put in drive, select the Run rather than Install option (2nd one down I think) and let it boot.

Should detect your Network settings etc and allow you to copy the files you need off to another server.

Or if its an IDE/SATA drive in the old box, get a USB caddy and just mount it on the new box and copy the files off.

Oh and stop using Dead Rat

[jamesterror]

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Download an Ubuntu ISO - as well as being installers they are also LIVE systems that run from CD

Put in drive, select the Run rather than Install option (2nd one down I think) and let it boot.

Should detect your Network settings etc and allow you to copy the files you need off to another server.

Or if its an IDE/SATA drive in the old box, get a USB caddy and just mount it on the new box and copy the files off.

Oh and stop using Dead Rat

I took the guess hes off site

I hate Linux all versions!!!!

Any ideas, where to get a decent ISO copy.

I'm on site and although not in front of the box atm I can be within minutes.

[jamesterror]

I use CentOS

http://www.centos.org/modules/tinyco...ndex.php?id=15

Do you colocate yourself or have a provider? Usually you can get them to do it for you

No everything is hosted internally, although I think I'll be revisiting after the week I have had so far.

Funny thing is all we were attempting to do was update the RALUS backupexec agent to 12.5...........

[jamesterror]

Strange.

Don't talk to me about the week I've had with my server, an outage last night due to memory crash and somebody attempted to hack my server last week causing it to crash.

**** take, but all fixed now. I'm learning linux step by step.

[SoulKiss]

I assume you are in The City - where abouts? I am on Chiswell St and have the 64bit ISO here

32bit version can be gotten here - http://ubuntu-releases.datahop.it/ha...sktop-i386.iso

I have specified the Desktop version rather than Server as it may be easire to use the GUI tools if you are not that happy on the CLI

Originally Posted by krhall

I hate Linux all versions!!!!

Any ideas, where to get a decent ISO copy.

I'm on site and although not in front of the box atm I can be within minutes.

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by jamesterror

I use CentOS

You have my commiserations.....