I recently had some really ugly hardware failure on a desktop I've had for years. I had backups of most everything important except for a mysql database that I'd really hate to lose. Although I haven't done a mysql-dump in at least a year, I have very recently burned /var/lib/mysql onto a CD. So I have the following files backed up from /var/lib/mysql: amarok debian-5.0.flag ibdata1 murdelized test blog [redacted].dnsalias.org.err ib_logfile0 murdevel cds ib_arch_log_0000000000 ib_logfile1 mysql Is it possible to use these files to restore my old databases to my new system? I tried just copying them to /var/log/mysql and that didn't work. Thanks for your help, Ian -- Ian Stoner Philosophy Department University of Minnesota