when you only have .MYD files left…
…sometimes it turns out ok. Recently, I encountered a situation where filesystem corruption ate parts of a website’s database. Backups? Nope. Here is what was in the /var/lib/mysql/database directory: (several working complete tables) wp_users.MYD What was missing: wp_users.MYI wp_users.frm (several other incomplete tables) So what do you do when you’re missing your table definitions and … [Read more…]