• My home server crashed the day before I left on a 14th month trip. I quickly purchased a hosting plan, moved my DNS, setup a new site, and used that over the 14 months. I’m back from my trip now and I have had time to recover files from the drive in my old server. I only have the site folder and the individual sql files (.frm, .myd, .myi). My goal is to recover the content from the old site AND integrate it into my current site. I have two primary questions:

    1) What is the best way to restore the content using the db files?
    2) What is the best way to insert the recovered, old posts into my current blog?

    I was using WAMP2 on the home server and have downloaded the older version I was using at the time which includes mysql 5.1.36. I have seen people say to add the frm and myd only and do a repair. If that is the case, can I then recreate the entire site or will that simply allow me to scrape the content from the DBs? Or, do I perform a proper backup from the repaired tables and use that to restore the site? And finally, however I go about recovering the old site’s content, do I have to manually recreate (cut/paste) each older post into my new site or is there a better way to insert the media files and content that’s less laborious?

    Thanks in advance for any help.

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