[debian-mysql] Bug#617796: Bug#617796: mysql-server-5.1: Upgrade of debian stable silently ERASED my years old mysql database (no backup)

[Norbert Tretkowski]

Am Freitag, den 11.03.2011, 16:22 +0100 schrieb Carlo Wood:
> Hi, the upgrade was done on Feb 2, 2011. The logs
> of that are attached as dpkg.log.2.gz

If you mean Feb 7, then mysql-server-5.0 was purged at that day:

2011-02-07 21:03:29 purge mysql-server-5.0 5.0.51a-24+lenny4 5.0.51a-24+lenny4

According to your debconf settings, you will see a question asking you
if you want to purge the databases as well, but it only removes the
database files if you explicitly tell debconf to do so, the default is
to keep the database files.

I just purged the mysql-server* packages from one of my systems, but
after that it still has the /var/lib/mysql/ directory containing the
databases.


Regards

Norbert