Author Andriy Lysyuk.

Introduction

Unfortunately, human mistakes are inevitable. That’s how life is. Wrong DROP DATABASE or DROP TABLE may destroy critical data on the MySQL server. Obviously, backups would help, however they’re not always available. This situation is frightening but not hopeless. In many cases it’s possible to recover almost all the data that was in the database or table.
Let’s look at how we can do it. The recovery plan depends on whether InnoDB kept all data in a single ibdata1 or each table had its own tablespace. In this post we will consider the case when innodb_file_per_table=OFF. This option assumes that all tables are stored in a common file, usually located at /var/lib/mysql/ibdata1.

One Wrong Move, And The Table’s Gone

For our scenario, we use …

Earlier before we blogged about ways to recover corrupt MySQL database with TwinDB Data Recovery Toolkit. However learning curve of the toolkit is rather steep. It takes time to get familiar with InnoDB internals and the tool. And let’s be honest nobody gets prepared for data loss – people who prepare for disaster recovery take and verify backups. So when an accident happens precious time has to be spent on learning and scripting.

At TwinDB we automate everything. With data recovery automation is not straightforward, but we did it. In the post I will show how to recover corrupted MySQL database in the fastest possible way.

MySQL Data Recovery Portal

MySQL Data Recovery Portal is a web interface to TwinDB …

I’ll be presenting Undrop for InnoDB data recovery toolkit on Percona Live 2015. The conference takes place in Santa Clara on 13-16 April.

You may wonder why do I care if I plan to drop none of my production databases. To name few reasons:

• Taxes, death and data loss are inevitable
• Good knowledge of how InnoDB stores data on disk help to design fast and scalable databases
• The toolkit can be used to troubleshoot bugs in InnoDB.

So bookmark the session, it’s going to be a great discussion.

Undrop for InnoDB | Percona Live MySQL Conference 2015

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On 5 November, I’ll be speaking at #SFMySQL Meetup about Data Recovery Software for MySQL

Add Slipped & DROP’d your TABLE? Recover w/TwinDB’s Undrop for InnoDB toolkit to your calendar.

There will be a demo and if you want to try to undrop a table yourself bring in a laptop with Linux.

Download the latest revision of the TwinDB Data Recovery Toolkit from LaunchPad.

Internet connection isn’t necessary, but make sure you install dependencies: gcc, make, flex, bison.

The post Presenting TwinDB Data Recovery …

Introduction

In the previous post we described the situation when TwinDB recovery toolkit can be used to recover accidentaly dropped table in the case innodb_file_per_table=OFF setting.
In this post we will show how to recover MySQL table or database in case innodb_file_per_table is ON. So, let’s assume that mysql server has setting innodb_file_per_table=ON. This option tells InnoDB to store each table with user in a separate data  file.

We will use for recovery test the same database sakila, that was used in the previous post.

root@test:/var/lib/mysql/sakila# ll
total 23468
drwx------ 2 mysql mysql     4096 Jul 15 04:26 ./
drwx------ 6 mysql mysql     4096 Jul 15 04:26 ../
-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql …

Introduction

Human mistakes are inevitable. Wrong “DROP DATABASE” or “DROP TABLE” may destroy critical data on the MySQL server. Backups would help however they’re not always available. This situation is frightening but not hopeless. In many cases it is possible to recover almost all the data that was in the database or table.
Let’s look how we can do it. The recovery plan depends on whether InnoDB kept all data in a single ibdata1 or each table had its own tablespace . In this post we will consider the case innodb_file_per_table=OFF. This option assumes that all tables are stored in a common file, usually located at /var/lib/mysql/ibdata1.

Wrong action – table deletion

For our scenario we will use test database sakila that is shipped together with the tool.
Suppose we drop my mistake table actor:

mysql> SELECT * FROM actor LIMIT 10; …