MySQL InnoDB database restore

Question

I have to restore a database that has been inadvertently DROPped in MySQL 5.0. From checking the backup files, I only seem to have .FRM files to hold the database data.

Answer 1

.frm files are not the data files, they just store the "data dictionary information" (see MySQL manual). InnoDB stores its data in ib_logfile* files. That's what you need in order to do a backup/restore. For more details see here.