granitosdepaz21 wrote:I can browse folders but I don't know where exactly surveys and data are stored.
Since every linux distribution handles things a bit different your first stop are the ubuntu boards to look for help about transferring mysql files. I just looked up the info for ubuntu. I am using CentOS. But perhaps you can get the idea.
Config /etc/mysql/my.cnf
Default path for mysql files is /var/lib/mysql.
Subdirectory for every database. Tablenames should be used for files.
These files are only readable as root.
MyISAM tables are using suffixes myd, frm and myi
InnoDB tables ib_logfileXY, ibdataXY and idb.
Since you haven't got the old mysqld running you aren't able to export the data in a controlled way via mysqldump (at least to my knowledge.
As long as you didn't changed the architecture of the platform you have a good chance to use the files on the new mysql server.
You could use the
www.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/ to reimport data. You could also install the same limesurvey version on the new server and then just try to overwrite the files after you shut down the mysqld to prevent locking of files.
For the future I would use a complete image backup strategy to save time.
