Mysql datadir from old hard disk system won't boot
I am trying to migrate a mysql database from an old drive that had fedora9 (which no longer booted) to a ubuntu 16.04 server.
I copied the / var / lib / mysql folder from the old system to / testdb / mysql on the new system.
I change the owner to mysql: mysql in a new folder and update my.conf datadir to this new folder, but the mysql server no longer boots. I am getting the following error:
170625 12:44:37 [Warning] Using unique option prefix myisam-recover instead of myisam-recover-options is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the full name instead.
170625 12:44:37 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist
170625 12:44:37 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it.
170625 12:44:37 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
170625 12:44:37 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
170625 12:44:37 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.8
170625 12:44:37 InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO
170625 12:44:37 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
170625 12:44:37 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
170625 12:44:37 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation.
InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to
InnoDB: the directory.
InnoDB: File name ./ibdata1
InnoDB: File operation call: 'open'.
InnoDB: Cannot continue operation.
170625 12:44:38 [Warning] Using unique option prefix myisam-recover instead of myisam-recover-options is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the full name instead.
170625 12:44:38 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist
170625 12:44:38 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it.
170625 12:44:38 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
170625 12:44:38 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
170625 12:44:38 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.8
170625 12:44:38 InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO
170625 12:44:38 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
170625 12:44:38 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
170625 12:44:38 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation.
InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to
InnoDB: the directory.
InnoDB: File name ./ibdata1
InnoDB: File operation call: 'open'.
InnoDB: Cannot continue operation.
170625 12:44:38 [Warning] Using unique option prefix myisam-recover instead of myisam-recover-options is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the full name instead.
170625 12:44:38 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
/usr/sbin/mysqld: Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist
170625 12:44:38 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it.
170625 12:44:38 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
170625 12:44:38 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
170625 12:44:38 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.8
170625 12:44:38 InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO
170625 12:44:38 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
170625 12:44:38 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
170625 12:44:38 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation.
InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to
InnoDB: the directory.
InnoDB: File name ./ibdata1
InnoDB: File operation call: 'open'.
InnoDB: Cannot continue operation.
I tried to change all permissions, even 777 for all files (just to try) but always has the same result.
How do I restore databases?
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I finally found a way to restore the tables and didn't change the datadir from my.conf (it didn't work even copying the contents of the default database which works fine), I copied the folder I want to restore the default datadir, overwriting all files except mysql.sock and mysql. Then I started the mysql server and it works, but some tables need to be restored with
mysqlcheck --repair --all-databases -u root -p
Everything works fine now
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