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kinkajou
kinkajou

Reputation: 3728

How to recover just deleted rows in mysql?

Is it possible to restore table to last time with data if all data was deleted accidentally.

Upvotes: 43

Views: 178589

Answers (9)

n0099
n0099

Reputation: 1392

If you're using binlog with binlog_format=ROW which both is by default as of mysql 8.0,

and haven't done a full backup within the lifespan of available binlog files, i.e. complete mysqldump after the configured time of binlog_expire_logs_seconds before now, to perform the suggested Point-in-Time Recovery,

then you can still try to recover deleted rows with only a binlog file that covers these deleted events and turn them into insert events with this approach in https://github.com/lefred/MyUndelete/issues/5 :

it's able to replace the event type with the original awk script in http://thenoyes.com/littlenoise/?p=307:

BEGIN { regexp = "$^" }

/^BINLOG/ {
  print;
  getline;
  regexp = "^" substr($0, 1, 5) "[CSiy][ABCD]" substr($0, 8, 4);
}

$0 ~ regexp {
  n = $0;
  $0 = substr(n, 1, 5)
  $0 = $0 substr("BRhx", index("CSiy", substr(n, 6, 1)), 1)
  $0 = $0 substr("4567", index("ABCD", substr(n, 7, 1)), 1)
  $0 = $0 substr(n, 8) ;
}

{ print; }

sudo mysqlbinlog --start-position=148418658 --stop-position=484776616 binlog.000117 | awk -f undelete.awk | mysql

Upvotes: 0

Mr. Smit
Mr. Smit

Reputation: 2542

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

Upvotes: -3

Wrikken
Wrikken

Reputation: 70540

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.

Upvotes: 3

Aardvark27
Aardvark27

Reputation: 51

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)

Upvotes: 5

Piskvor left the building
Piskvor left the building

Reputation: 92792

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.)

Upvotes: 1

Tjekkles
Tjekkles

Reputation: 5622

No this is not possible. The only solution will be to have regular backups. This is very important.

Upvotes: 1

Mihai Iorga
Mihai Iorga

Reputation: 39724

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.

Upvotes: 50

JanLikar
JanLikar

Reputation: 1306

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.

Upvotes: 3

Shamim Hafiz - MSFT
Shamim Hafiz - MSFT

Reputation: 22134

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.

Upvotes: 3

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