mysql - How do I repair an InnoDB table?

Question

We (apparently) had poorly executed of our Solaris MySQL database engine last night. At least some of the InnoDB tables are corrupted, with timestamp out of order errors in the transaction log, and a specific error about the index being corrupted.

We know about the tools available for MyISAM table repairs, but cannot find anything for InnoDB.

Side note: attempting a table optimize (in my attempt to rebuild the corrupted index) causes the database server to crash.

Answer 1

First of all stop the server and image the disc. There's no point only having one shot at this. Then take a look here.

Answer 2

Have you tried to restore the table from backup?

Use the newly created dump file to restore the table from the dump (i.e., single_dbtable_dump) file:

mysql –u user –p < single_dbtable_dump.sql