Okay.. here's a tricky bit:
I had a Win2KP machine running MySQL, PHP and Apache. This was my test machine. Then, I bought a webserver for a production machine and I'm successfully running SME6.0b2 on it. Now, before I had a chance to dump my databases and move them properly to the webserver, the hard disk in the Win2KP machine failed (corrupted boot sector that's non-repairable.)
Anyhoo, I have a backup of these databases on CD, which I had burned about 48 hours before the big crash. How can I get these onto my webserver? I can't seem to find any method for taking the old MySQL files from the CD and putting them into an appropriate location (what is the appropriate location?) and then refreshing MySQL so it can read/use those databases (and how does one do that?)
If it comes down to it, I can rebuild the structure of the database with PHPMyAdmin and then re-import the data from my tab-delimited text file - it's a pile of work, but it's doable. But I thought this was an interesting issue to address in case anybody else had a similar problem. How do you get your database off a CD and onto a different PC? Anyone else had this issue to contend with?
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