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Asked: 2026-06-04T10:37:38+00:00

I have a hard drive with an old Ubuntu Server installation running mysql that

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I have a hard drive with an old Ubuntu Server installation running mysql that got bad sectors and isn’t accessible anymore. Luckily I was able to create a snapshot of this drive before it died and now I am able to MOUNT it in my new Ubuntu installation as a second hard drive, it still has all the files, binaries and everything on it.

So here’s my problem, I really need to dump that mysql database from that snapshot. is it possible to somehow log in into the snapshot’s drive mysql and dump it?

Thanks in advance!

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  1. Editorial Team

    It looks like this post might be your answer:

    http://www.techrepublic.com/article/backing-up-and-restoring-mysql-databases/5259660

    Find and copy over the contents of mysql’s data/ directory.

    Having a quick look on my Ubuntu server though I can’t immediately find a data/ directory, but I do have all my databases and data files in /var/lib/mysql, so check there as well.

    running the following command as root / admin user in the terminal will give you a list of places to start looking

    find / -name "mysql"
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