Recovering mysql data - mysqlbinlog

[John]

Thank you Mel and Paul for the suggestions.  From what I understand the
general query log is more for debugging and the binary log is for point in
time recovery and replication.  I'll be adding a my.cnf file (using the
my-large.cnf as a skeleton) soon.  I'm glad the issue was caught earlier on
and now I'm the wiser thanks to you guys.  I wonder why the default is no.
I can't think of anyone who wouldn't find the binary logging beneficial.

I didn't run myisamchk since I'm trying to restore data that was mistakenly
deleted and not recovering from a corruption.

-John

-----Original Message-----
From: Mel [mailto:fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net] 
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:23 PM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Cc: John; jjvaughan at gmail.com
Subject: Re: Recovering mysql data - mysqlbinlog

On Thursday 01 May 2008 19:45:32 John wrote:
> Can someone direct me to where the MySQL transaction logs are stored?  I
am
> running FreeBSD 6.1 with MySql 5.0.41 which I installed from ports, no
> extra config.  From what I've read online, unless you disable them (which
I
> couldn't find in the makefile) the logs should be being created.  Doing a
> find / --name "bin." Didn't turn up anything.

By default they end up in /var/db/mysql and are named $hostname-bin.###
Also, the information you read online is incorrect. By default, binary
logging 
(which are the transaction logs) is disabled. I don't recall whether this is

a FreeBSD port specific modification.

You can turn it on by putting a my.cnf in /var/db/mysql. Templates named 
my-$size.cnf are in /usr/local/share/mysql and are well-commented.

> I'll also note that it is not in var/db/mysql with the rest of the mysql
> data files and the ib_logfiles which would have been useful, but the data
I
> am trying to recover is from a MyISAM.

I take it you tried myisamchk?
-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.