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Fixing damaged MySQL tables - Error 1712 and Error 2013

ERROR 1712 (HY000): Index smf_messages is corrupted

ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server during queryA

mysqldump: Error 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query when dumping table `smf_messages` at row: 135457

Oops ... I don't know what to say ...
"Don't Panic" in the words of Corporal Jones (Dad's Army) [here]
"I don't BELIEVE it" in the words of Victor Meldrew (One foot in the grave) [here]

For readers who are to young to remember those shows, or aren't from Great Britain ... something seems to have gone awfully wrong with the database. If I had been using MyIsam tables, mysqlcheck would identify the problem and call repair table to (try to ) fix the issue. But I wasn't - I was using Innodb tables.

Don't panic - provided you have a reasonably recent backup, and the table in question is write-mostly (which mine is - it's forum messages)

Method

a) Create a new table structure the same as the damaged table:
  mysql> create table newmessages like smf_messages;

b) Copy messages from the end of the damaged table into the new table:
  mysql> insert newmessages select * from smf_messages order by id_msg desc limit 20;

c) Backup the newly created (short) table:
  /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqldump -h 127.0.0.1 -u fgw -p fgw newmessages > noloss.sql

d) delete the damaged table (having double checked you have a GOOD, COMPLETE backup!):
  mysql> drop table smf_messages;

e) Extract the data you want to restore out of your backups
(Edit copy of fgw.sql to contain only the inserts for the smf_messages)
  mysql> source fgw.sql.copy

f) Trim back the end of the update table so that there's no overlap, and install it too
(Edit noloss.sql to contain only the extra posts added)
  mysql> source noloss.sql.copy

And it should be "Robert's your parent's brother" - sorry - "Bob's your Uncle" [here].
(written 2015-01-25)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
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  [334] Symbolic links and hard links - (2005-06-02)
  [489] Which MySQL server am I using? - (2005-11-07)
  [515] MySQL - an FAQ - (2005-12-03)
  [535] MySQL permissions and privileges - (2005-12-20)
  [591] Key facts - SQL and MySQL - (2006-02-04)
  [907] Browser -> httpd -> Tomcat -> MySQL. Restarting. - (2006-10-28)
  [1095] Apache httpd , browser, MySQL and MySQL client downloads - (2007-02-28)
  [1123] mysqldump and mysqlrestore - (2007-03-30)
  [1131] MySQL - Password security (authentication protocol) - (2007-04-02)
  [1689] Some sideways thoughts on the news - (2008-06-27)
  [1731] Apache httpd, MySQL, PHP - installation procedure - (2008-08-01)
  [1771] More HowTo diagrams - MySQL, Tomcat and Java - (2008-08-24)
  [1935] Summary of MySQL installation on a Linux system - (2008-12-11)
  [2085] MySQL - licensing issues, even with using the name - (2009-03-16)
  [2209] Monitoring and Tuning your MySQL installation - (2009-05-31)
  [2426] Which version of MySQL am I running? - (2009-09-26)
  [2444] Potted MySQL installation - (2009-10-09)
  [2445] Securing MySQL on a production server - (2009-10-09)
  [2458] Cant connect to local MySQL server through socket /tmp/mysql.sock - (2009-10-17)
  [4390] Checking MySQL database backups have worked (not failed) - (2015-01-10)
  [4487] Starting MySQL. ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file - how we fixed it. - (2015-05-06)

S161 - Data Access and Security in MySQL
  [193] The wrong MySQL - (2005-01-29)
  [401] What is an SQL injection attack? - (2005-08-02)
  [647] Checking for MySQL errors - (2006-03-15)
  [947] What is an SQL injection attack? - (2006-11-27)
  [2204] Images in a database? How big is a database? (MySQL) - (2009-05-28)
  [2263] Mysqldump fails as a cron job - a work around - (2009-06-30)
  [2647] Removing duplicates from a MySQL table - (2010-02-22)
  [3270] SQL - Data v Metadata, and the various stages of data selection - (2011-04-29)
  [4481] Extracting data from backups to restore selected rows from MySQL tables - (2015-05-01)
  [4491] Web Server Admin - some of those things that happen, and solutions - (2015-05-10)
  [4493] Forgotten / lost MySQL root password - (2015-05-16)


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