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

The detailed solution you can found here:

http://www.unilogica.com/mysql-innodb-recovery/ (Article in Portuguese)

Besides the flag of innodb_force_recovery, I found another solution: innodb_file_per_table, that splits InnoDB tables in each file like MyISAM tables.

In a crash recovery you can lost less data than in single file ibdata1.