Is it possible to restore table to last time with data if all data was deleted accidentally.
There is another solution, if you have binary logs active on your server you can use mysqlbinlog
generate a sql file with it
mysqlbinlog binary_log_file > query_log.sql
then search for your missing rows.
If you don't have it active, no other solution. Make backups next time.
Sort of. Using phpMyAdmin I just deleted one row too many. But I caught it before I proceeded and had most of the data from the delete confirmation message. I was able to rebuild the record. But the confirmation message truncated some of a text comment.
Someone more knowledgeable than I regarding phpMyAdmin may know of a setting so that you can get a more complete echo of the delete confirmation message. With a complete delete message available, if you slow down and catch your error, you can restore the whole record.
(PS This app also sends an email of the submission that creates the record. If the client has a copy, I will be able to restore the record completely)
As Mitch mentioned, backing data up is the best method.
However, it maybe possible to extract the lost data partially depending on the situation or DB server used. For most part, you are out of luck if you don't have any backup.
I'm sorry, bu it's not posible, unless you made a backup file earlier.
EDIT: Actually it is possible, but it gets very tricky and you shouldn't think about it if data wasn't really, really important. You see: when data get's deleted from a computer it still remains in the same place on the disk, only its sectors are marked as empty. So data remains intact, except if it gets overwritten by new data. There are several programs designed for this purpose and there are companies who specialize in data recovery, though they are rather expensive.
For InnoDB tables, Percona has a recovery tool which may help. It is far from fail-safe or perfect, and how fast you stopped your MySQL server after the accidental deletes has a major impact. If you're quick enough, changes are you can recover quite a bit of data, but recovering all data is nigh impossible.
Of cours, proper daily backups, binlogs, and possibly a replication slave (which won't help for accidental deletes but does help in case of hardware failure) are the way to go, but this tool could enable you to save as much data as possible when you did not have those yet.
No this is not possible. The only solution will be to have regular backups. This is very important.
Unfortunately, no. If you were running the server in default config, go get your backups (you have backups, right?) - generally, a database doesn't keep previous versions of your data, or a revision of changes: only the current state.
(Alternately, if you have deleted the data through a custom frontend, it is quite possible that the frontend doesn't actually issue a DELETE: many tables have a is_deleted field or similar, and this is simply toggled by the frontend. Note that this is a "soft delete" implemented in the frontend app - the data is not actually deleted in such cases; if you actually issued a DELETE, TRUNCATE or a similar SQL command, this is not applicable.)
If you use MyISAM tables, then you can recover any data you deleted, just
open file: mysql/data/[your_db]/[your_table].MYD
with any text editor
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I accidentally truncated my table from online server and I wasn't able to back up it. Please anyone help me on what should I do.
Most viable, least work:
From a backup
Check again if you have one
Ask your hoster if they do backups; their default configuration for some setups might include a backup that you are unaware of, e.g. a database backup for wordpress or a file backup if you have a vm
Viable in some situations, little work if applicable:
From binary logs. Check if they are enabled (maybe as part of your hosters default configuration, also maybe only the hoster can access them, so you may need to ask them). They contain the most recent changes to your database, and, if you are lucky, "recent" might be long enough to include everything
Less viable, more work:
Try to recover from related data, e.g. history tables, other related tables or log files (e.g. the mysql general query log or log files that your application created); you can try to analyze them to figure out what should be in your table
Least viable, most work, most expensive:
In theory, since the data is still stored on the harddrive until it is overwritten by new data, you can try to recover the data, similar to tools that find lost blocks or deleted files on your harddrive
You need to stop any activity on your harddrive to increase probability of success. This will depend on your configuration and setup. E.g., in shared hosting, freed diskspace might be overwritten by other users beyond you control, on the other hand, if you are using innodb and disabled innodb_file_per_table, the data is stored in a single file (and the disk space is not freed), so stopping your mysql server should prevent any remaining recoverable data from being overwritten.
While there are some tools to help you with that, you will likely have to pay someone to do it for you (and even then you only get back the data that hasn't been overwritten so far), so this option is most likely only viable if your data is very valuable
As the title states, I accidently emptied tables in the wrong database. I did not export the database before I did this (stupid me). Is there anyway to restore the database to a previous date/version, so that I may obtain the emptied data back?
There is no way to recover deleted data if you didn't make any backups. You could try to check the logs, but I doubt you will find anything. You have to be careful when handling important data.
Sorry for you, but you should automate your mysql backup (in this case you lose at worst one day of data). I use this script to do that : https://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/
HTH
For security purpose, we will create a database log that will contain all changes done on different tables on the database, to achieve this we will use triggers as stated here but my concern is that if the system admin or anyone who has the root privilege changes the data on the logs for their benefit it will then make having logs meaningless. thus, I would like to know if there is a way for me to prevent anyone and I mean no one at all from doing any changes on the logs table, i.e dropping the table, updating, and deleting a row. if this is even possible? also in regards to my logs table, is it possible to keep track of the previous data that was changed using the update query? I would like to have a previous and new data on my logs table so that we may know what changes were made.
The problem you are trying to fix is hard, as you want someone who can administer you system, but you don't want them to be able to actually do something with all parts of the system. That means you either need to administer the system yourself and give someone limited access, trust all administrators, or look for an external solution.
What you could do is write your logs to a system where only you (or at least: a different adminsitrotor then the first) have access.
Then, if you only ever write (and don't allow changes/updates and deletes) on this system, you will be able to keep a trusted log and even spot inconsistencies in case of tampering.
A second method would be to use a specific method to write logs, one that adds a signed message. In this manner you can be sure that the logs have been added by that system. If you'd also save (signed) message of the state of the complete system, you are probably going to be able to recognize any tampering. The 'system' used for signing should live on another machine obviously, making it somewhat equivalent to the first option.
There is no way to stop root access from having permissions to make alterations. A combination approach can help you detect tampering though. You could create another server that has more limited access and clone the database table there. Log all login activity on both servers and cross backup the logs between servers. also, make very regular off server backups. You could also create a hashing table that matches each row of the log table. They would not only have to find the code that creates the hash, but reverse engineer it and alter the time stamp to match. However, I think your best bet is to make a cloned server that has no net login. Physical login only. If you think there has been any tampering, you will have to do some forensics. You can even add a USB key to the physical clone server and keep it with a CEO or something. Of course, if you can't trust the sysadmin's, no matter what your job is very difficult. The trick is not to create solid wall, but a fine net and scrutinize everything coming through the net.
Once you setup the Master Slave relationship, and only give untrusted users access to the slave database, you won't need to alter your code. Just use the master database as the primary in your code. The link below is information on setting up a master slave replication. To be fully effective though, these need to be on different servers. I don't know how this solution would work on one server. It may be possible, I just don't know.
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/replication.html
Open PhpMyAdmin
open the table
and assign table level privileges on the table
Is there any way to restore an entire Transaction Log but one query?
for example a delete query, or update query, that you accidentally execute?
Cause i know its is posible, to restore to a certain time, but what if the evil query affected only one table, and you dont want to loose the changes in the other tables?
You can certainly use ApexSQL Log. You can recover deleted or updated rows, but you can also choose what data you are going to recover.
Tool working great and it is very flexible. A lot of filters to help you narrow the search for data you want to recover.
Here you can find some info: How to recover SQL Server data from accidental UPDATE and DELETE operations.
There is no way to do that using just the tools that come with SQL Server, though as you said you can come close using point in time recovery.
I believe ApexSqlLog may allow you to do this, but I have never tested using it in that fashion. SQL Log Rescue from Red Gate also seems to allow you to do this, and whil I have used many products from Red Gate and have generally been very happy with them, I have not tried that particular product either.
This is what I would recommend you try. A fairly common scenario actually.
Restore the database to a "second" copy on the server
(full backup or log backup to bring you back to the point of loss)
Isolate the single table or data in the copy database and move it over to the live database
There are a variety of ways to accomplish step 2 such as
direct queries (insert / update)
merge statement
ssms export / import wizard
ssis etc. etc. etc.
in sql server 2008 is there a way to get the user that inserted some rows, or updated, deleted, dropped, altered some tables?
can we get this information the date that occurred?
also is there a way to know if the data was inserted from the same machine or from other machine?
Edit: if it's really hard then maybe a way to achieve this is to user triggers
but is there a way to catch every action that happens on the DB so i can log them all??
something like on insert on any table
i want everything to be done on the DB so no matter what business app i use it will be logged
Unless you already had something set up in advance - a CDC mechanism of some kind it is going to be incredibly difficult to extract that information from the logs. It is possible given enough time, but it is a highly skilled forensic activity that is extremely time consuming to perform. (And relies on full logs being available.) There are third party log readers than can help with this but it will still be a huge effort.